Serving Whose Interests?: The Political Economy of Trade in Services AgreementsRoutledge |
Contents
Introduction Taking services to market | 1 |
Chapter 1 Reading the GATS as ideology | 22 |
Chapter 2 How the GATS was won and lost? | 58 |
Chapter 3 Traderelated development | 89 |
Chapter 4 The illusion of public services | 119 |
Chapter 5 Ruling the services infrastructure | 152 |
Chapter 6 Trade in people | 189 |
Chapter 7 Minds and markets | 221 |
Common terms and phrases
accessed 20 September accessed 4 August Annex Article Available online bilateral call centres Cancún capital cent commercial commitments Communication companies competition contracts CTS.SS cultural developing countries Doha Doha round domestic regulation economic energy services European export file with author financial services foreign investment framework GATS GATS 2000 negotiations GATT global global North globalisation human rights India industry infrastructure institutions integrated labour least developed countries liberalisation major powers market access ministerial mode multilateral national treatment neoliberal obligations OECD offshore operations organisations outsourcing partnerships PDVSA pension PFIs Philippines plurilateral political potential privatisation production programmes proposed public services regime regional regulatory restrictions retail rules schedules Secretariat September 2007 services agreements social South Southern governments strategy suppliers supply chain technologies telecommunications tourism trade in services transnational corporations treaty UNCTAD Uruguay round USTR Venezuela Wal-Mart workers World Bank WTO members