Social Services and The GATS: Key Issues and Concerns

Chanda, Rupa

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2003.09.003

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“…Cross-border trade in healthcare services of developing countries is expanding, becoming more competitive, and creating new dimensions of the globalization of healthcare, as the new niche of the medical market for global healthcare [16,27,28,29,30]. In Canada, supporters of medical tourism argue that medical travel reduces waiting list at home and improves access to care for citizens who cannot afford to travel abroad for surgery.…”

Section: Trade In Healthcare Services and Medical Travelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthcare Quality of Bangladesh and Outbound Medical Travel to Thailand

Ali¹,

Medhekar²

2018

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Section: Trade In Healthcare Services and Medical Travelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthcare Quality of Bangladesh and Outbound Medical Travel to Thailand

Ali¹,

Medhekar²

2018

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“…Furthermore, many of the GATS provisions are 'very loosely defined and broad in terminology, and thus subject to discretionary interpretation' (Chanda, 2003). The GATS includes trade in services, but nothing about privatisation.…”

Section: International Trade In Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade in Services: The Elasticity Approach for The Case of Turkey

Ketenci

2010

The International Trade Journal

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“…Other pro-GATS scholars go one step further and assert that concerns over regulatory capacity implications are based on misunderstandings (Chanda 2003;Saner and Fasel 2003). Most of the time, these authors argue that countries are free to decide whether they want to make liberalization commitments in the context of the WTO negotiations.…”

Section: B) Gats Upholds Regulatory Capacity Of Countriesmentioning

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Making sense of the GATS debate: semiotic analysis of the conflicting ideas on the education/free-trade relationship

Verger

2011

International Studies in Sociology of Education

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The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization has generated an intense and passionate debate about the relationship between free-trade and education and, specifically, about the effects of trade liberalization in national education systems. This article explores in detail this debate from a critical discourse and semiotic approach. Its objective is two-fold. First, it aims at identifying and systematizing the core axes of the debate, as well as at confronting ideas within each of the axes. Second, it aims at explaining how and why the agreement has generated such an intense and polarized discussion in the educational field by, among other analytical strategies, appealing to the broader institutional and ideational contexts in which the debate is inscribed. Arguments are based on observation in public debates on GATS and education and a corpus of 86 texts on the topic coming from different sources including academic journals, conference proceedings, policy reports and newsletters of international and civil society organizations.

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Social Services and The GATS: Key Issues and Concerns

Cited by 22 publications

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Healthcare Quality of Bangladesh and Outbound Medical Travel to Thailand

Healthcare Quality of Bangladesh and Outbound Medical Travel to Thailand

Trade in Services: The Elasticity Approach for The Case of Turkey

Making sense of the GATS debate: semiotic analysis of the conflicting ideas on the education/free-trade relationship

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