What Are the Main Challenges for the GATS Framework? Don't Talk about Revolution

European Business Organization Law Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 511-562

  Marchetti, Juan A ^a   Mavroidis, Petros C ^b  

^a WTO ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

domestic regulation; General Agreement on Trade in Services; public services; safeguards; trade in services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928543100     PISSN: 15667529     EISSN: 17416205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1566752904005117     Document Type: Review

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