Unit 13 - Readings & Viewings
Services Liberalization More in FTAs than GATS, but Why?
Read the following documents:
a. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), concentrating on the questions what constitutes “services,” “delivery [modes] for services,” and “measures”? Ask yourself how do the GATT and GATS differ in their approaches generally?
b. Services Negotiations: The New Negotiations
a. Arnold, Javorik & Matto, The Productivity Effects of Services Liberalization
b. Fefer, U.S. Trade in Services: Trends and Policy Issues (CRS, 06/30/17)
a. Dee, Services Liberalization Towards the ASEAN Economic Community (pay attention to the health and medical aspects)
b. EY shines spotlight on Indonesia’s growing healthcare sector through its ripe investment opportunities, Jakarta 29 June 2015 (read the report, bearing in mind that Ernst & Young and similar accounting firms are not charitable undertakings, and so they are flogging a live business and investment opportunity in the AEC for which they hope to advise investors; google to find the Deloitte product too, another non-charitable organization spending money on business development here)
c. Noree, Hanefeld & Smith, “Medical tourism in Thailand: A cross-sectional study,” 94 Bulletin of the WHO 30 (2016)