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Article: GATS and Women.
- Article from:
- Foreign Policy in Focus
- Article date:
- January 8, 2001
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Key Points
* Since last December, members of the World Trade Organization have continued negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
* GATS aims to dramatically expand the ability of multinational corporations to provide services on a for-profit basis and creates a new regulatory framework for trade in services.
* GATS is likely to have a disproportionately negative impact on women, particularly women in developing countries.
Although the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial failed to produce a new round of trade expansion, prior commitments made by countries in the Uruguay Round (which launched the ...