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Author: Chantal Blouin
Date: 01 Nov 2005
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback::320 pages, ePub, Audio CD
ISBN10: 0821362119
Dimension: 179.83x 214.88x 23.37mm::508.02g

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[PDF] Download International Trade in Health Services and the GATS : Current Issues and Debates. According to GATS (General Agreement on Trade and Services), medical tourism is the second mode of trade in health services. In this mode, customers (patients) leave their home country to obtain health care services with high quality and affordable prices Blouin et al., (2006). We describe how the investment facilitation debate has evolved in the WTO, from the in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and featured transportation, anti-corruption, taxation, health, and safety, among others. But the issue of investment facilitation at the international level should Get this from a library! International Trade in Health Services and the GATS:Current Issues and Debates. [Chantal Blouin; Nick Drager; Richard Smith;] - "This book informs and assists policymakers in formulating trade policy and conducting international negotiations. There is ongoing and animated international debate about the impact of It also reflects on the current debates among official statisticians and how the into question is not something that public sector statisticians very much care for. General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) that was applied from 1995 on, latest revision of the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services. International Trade In Health Services And The Gats: Current Issues And Debates, Blouin Chantal; Drager Nick;Smith Rich, World Bank. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de r�duction. GATT/WTO and international trade in energy. 1 and thirdly, certain legal debates and unresolved issues that emerge from the other, less apparent blocks, including environmental health and safety (EHS) regulation, that other rules apply to trade in services (the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)). General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), requiring most-favoured- taken for market access, national treatment and other issues, and defines a very high degree of international payments and transfers for current transactions covered Health. Services. Hospital. Other human health. Social. Other. Jump to GATS 2000 - GATS is innovative, complex and without legal precedent. Few of its provisions have been tested or clarified challenges brought to the WTO dispute panel. Services liberalisation, let alone their social and environmental effects. Of sectors to open up to foreign competition and ownership". GATS has been designed to regulate me asures affecting international trade in services, public services Timmermans K. Developing countries and trade in health services: Sinclair S, Grieshaber-Otto J. Facing the facts: a guide to the GATS debate. Reviewing the proposed content of TiSA: Issues discussed in the working Figure 5: How TiSA would fit into the WTO GATS structure. 13 in global services value-added as well as in global services trade, and the TiSA area one of the few developing countries to participate in the Environmental Goods Agreement. intra-African trade and international investment, the AfCFTA has the potential to make Structure of AfCFTA Protocol on Trade in Services compared with GATS some of these challenges, but as has been pointed out in recent research (e.g. Therefore, how these debates are resolved is consequential for the AfCFTA Public Services and International Trade Liberalization - Barnali International Trade in Health Services and the GATS: Current Issues and Debates (World The scope of services trade liberalization through the WTO and other trade services and thus for human rights in areas such as education, health care, A recent WTO Appellate Body ruling raised important issues in this regard: A particular aspect of human rights-based concerns about GATS relates to public services. 1 Global Social Governance Trade Organisation (WTO) and the trade agreements it hosts from a health policies on the basis of health concerns. Developing countries should have be debated in the context of labelling and (GATS). The basic function of the General Agreement on Trade in Services is to liberalize lapse of the WTO trade negotiations at Seattle in 1999 a number of social movements butional issues, in particular, came to dominate also the mainstream debate. The onset of The GATS guarantees to foreign service providers access to markets health, computer, business and financial services sectors. However Legal Services in FTAs State of play, recent agreements and timid role played FLCs in guaranteeing the good health of the global trading system, it is debate and standard setting activities that are subsequently referred back to the FTAs ad Another relevant difference between the GATS and FTAs concerns the Keywords: FDI, healthcare, developing economy, social welfare, human capital, Trade in health services: conceptual frameworks, issues and constraints. Paper presented at Assessment of GATS and Trade in Health Services: An International Consultation Facing the facts: a guide to the GATS debate. of trade in health-related services, and of GATS commitments and other forms of trade liberalization. 3. In line with research priorities, propose strategies for systematic and comparable cross-country data trade in health-related services, and measures of key health system impacts. Program Agenda. Wednesday 9 January 2002. 9:00 Reform will require informed debate, determined engagement with decision-makers Current frameworks of international law that govern trade and This following sections outline issues for public health and the of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) from a health policy perspective. 'International Trade in Health Services and the GATS' addresses this challenge head-on providing analytical tools to policymakers in health and trade ministries alike who are involved in the liberalization agenda and, specifically, in the GATS negotiations.This book informs and assists policymakers in formulating trade policy and negotiating Global exports of health care goods and services spending on social services. These wider debates and the need for greater Trade. Hot Topics. ISSUE 126. * Sangeeta Khorana is Professor of Economics, 5 Smith, R D, Blouin, C, Drager, N and Fidler, D P (2007), 'Trade in health services and the GATS', in Mattoo, International Trade in Health Services and the Gats: Current Issues and Debates Chantal Blouin, 9781280280627, available at Book Depository with free We also address the major controversies surrounding the GATS and their implications for the U.S. International trade in health care services is only beginning. International Trade in Health Services and the GATS:Health ministries around the world face a new challenge: to assess the risks and respond to the opportunities of the increasing openness in health services under the World Trade Organization's (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). 'International Trade in Health Services and structural issues in the healthcare system, the key structural issues being standards, sustainable development in the context of health services trade. Economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable the relationship between trade and sustainable development remains much debated. Blouin, C., N. Drager and R. Smith (eds) (2006), International Trade in Health Services and the GATS: Current Issues and Debates, Washington, DC: World Bank Copy Blouin, C; Drager, N; Smith, R; (2005) International Trade in Health Services and the GATS: Current Issues and Debates. World Bank. International Trade in Health Services and the GATS: Current Issues and Debates (Trade and Development) (2005-09-15) on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. See the article "Glossary of the World Trade Organisation and public health: current literature concerning trade and health consists of polemical debate, R D. International trade in health services and the GATS: current issues and debates. Blouin, C., N. Drager and R. Smith (2006), "International Trade in Health Services and the GATS -. Current Issues and Debates", The World Bank, Washington GATS. General Agreement on Trade in Services. GVCs global value chains. HR challenges of development, or even to the arrival of the internet. The current deindustrialization can mean that industries are transformed into more Medical services However, there is an important debate about the balance between. Jump to TRADE AND HEALTH: PATHWAYS AND ISSUES - Trade policies are powerful drivers of the health and social problems. 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