Opening Markets for Foreign Skills: How Can the WTO Help? Lessons fr

The Mode 4 commitments of WTO Members are narrow and shallow.  Even though trade negotiations for enhanced Mode 4 access started well before the launch of the DDA- prospects for success are thin.  These negotiations followed a traditional mercan

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Opening Markets for Foreign Skills: How Can the WTO Help? Lessons from the EU and Uganda's Regional Services Deals

Opening Markets for Foreign Skills: How Can the WTO Help?

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Joy Kategekwa

Opening Markets for Foreign Skills: How Can the WTO Help? Lessons from the EU and Uganda’s Regional Services Deals

Joy Kategekwa Geneva Switzerland

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Abstract

Mode 4, the provision of services through presence of natural persons, presents the potential for significant economic benefits for all WTO Members. Gains are significantly higher for developing and least-developed countries. The evidence is well documented in economic literature, as well as in negotiation positions taken by developing and least-developed countries in the WTO’s GAT