The General Agreement of Trade in Services (GATS) is included as Annexe IV to the final text of the Uruguay round agreement. It provides a multilateral framework of principles and rules which should Govern Trade in Services under conditions of transparency and progressive liberalization. It spells out certain general obligations such as extension of MFN principle, maintenance of transparency and a commitment for liberalization in general terms. GATS has been called an empty box from which the LDCs have little to fear and little to gain. In a negotiating process, schedules by definition cannot be unilateral; they have to be negotiated with other partners. It is also claimed that the MFN provision of the GATS will provide the LDCs export opportunities in many sectors even if the LDCs do not give commitments on market access and national treatment. Negotiations on financial services and movement of natural persons have just been concluded. These improve upon the commitments that were made in the national schedules. This series is dedicated to Raul Prebisch who underlined the dynamics of the world economy and the interdependence between the industrial countries of the North and the LDCs of the South.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neelambar Hatti
Neelambar Hatti is mainly involved in research at the Department of Economic History, University of Lund, Sweden. Dr. Hatti has written extensively on Trade, Aid and Rural Development, and Microdemography. He has also taught at the University of Copenhagen and has been a visiting Senior Fellow at the Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. He has recently authored (with Rameshwar Tandon) the study, Exports and Development: The Indian Experience.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rameshwar Tandon
Rameshwar Tandon works at the International Institute for Special Education, Lucknow. For the last three decades, he worked with Prof. VKRV Rao at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He is author-editor of numerous books and articles, most recently, Exports and Development: The Indian Experience (jointly with Prof. Neelambar Hatti)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S Chandrasekhar
S Chandrasekhar is Assistant Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Mumbai, India. His research interests are Urban Livelihoods, Migration and Urbanization, Multiple Dimensions of Well-Being and Rural-Urban Linkages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sir Hans Singer
Sir Hans Singer is Emeritus Professor of the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex since 1969. Previously he served in the United Nations Secretariat for over 20 eyars and held a number of academic and civil service posts. He is the author of numerous books and articles, most recently The Foreign Aid Business (jointly with K. Raffer).
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