Levelling the playing field: Is the WTO adequately equipped to prevent anti-competitive practices in telecommunications?

The WTO and Global Convergence in Telecommunications and Audio-Visual Services

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 130-162

  Geradin, Damien ^a   Kerf, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 84927033998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511674471.007     Document Type: Chapter

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41. This proposed approach shares many similarities with the proposal made by Eleanor Fox in ‘Competition Law and theMillennium Round’, Journal of International Economic Law 4 (1999): 665.
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