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"In this study, Sydney J. Key provides a unique framework for analyzing the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the liberalization and regulation of the financial services sector. Throughout, she emphasizes the complementary and mutually reinforcing relationship between efforts to open markets under the GATS and the intensive ongoing international work on strengthening domestic financial systems, including prudential regulation and supervision. Key's study identifies six broad goals for the financial services negotiations in the Doha round. Four of the goals involve what she terms ""first-pillar liberalization,"" aimed at achieving national treatment and market access. These include binding existing and ongoing liberalization and narrowing or withdrawing broad most favored nation exemptions. The final two goals involve ""second-pillar liberalization,"" aimed at removing nonquantitative and nondiscriminatory structural barriers. This requires strengthening GATS disciplines on regulatory transparency and removing barriers to ""effective market access."" Key concludes that success in achieving the goals discussed in this study depends significantly on factors beyond the scope of the Doha round negotiations, but she emphasizes the important role the negotiations can play in helping to accelerate the process of liberalization of trade in financial services."

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Author:   Sydney J. Key
Publisher:   AEI Press
Imprint:   AEI Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.199kg
ISBN:  

9780844741826

ISBN 10:   0844741825
Pages:   118
Publication Date:   01 January 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Sydney J. Key is on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board's Division of International Finance in Washington, D.C. She is the author of numerous articles and studies, including Financial Services in the Uruguay Round and the WTO.

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