WTO Domestic Regulation and Services Trade

1. An introduction to domestic regulation and GATS Aik Hoe Lim and Bart De Meester; Part I. Impediments to Services Trade, Regulatory Theory and Principles: 2. Why regulate? An overview of the rationale and purpose behind regulation Tinne Heremans; 3. Domestic regulation: what are the costs and benefits for international trade in services? Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås; Part II. Legal Perspectives on WTO Principles and Domestic Regulations: 4. Reasonableness, impartiality and objectivity Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon; 5. Balancing legal certainty with regulatory flexibility Markus Krajewski; 6. Who's afraid of necessity? And why it matters? Panagiotis Delimatsis; 7. Mutual recognition of services regulation at the WTO Joel P. Trachtman; Part III. Case-studies: 8. Legal services in the United States Erica Moeser and Laurel Terry; 9. Telecommunications reform in China: fostering competition through state intervention Henry Gao; 10. Information communication technology: the Mauritian experience of regulation and reform Krishna Oolun; 11. Regulation of postal services in a changing market environment: lessons from Australia and elsewhere Siva Somasundram and Iain Sandford; 12. Mobile money services provision in East Africa: the Ugandan experience Joan Apecu, Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo and Yusuf Atiku Abdalla; 13. Financial services liberalization and regulation in Japan: implications for future negotiation on market access and domestic regulations Masamichi Kono, Koichi Iwai and Yoshitaka Sakai; 14. Domestic regulations in Malaysia's higher education sector Tham Siew Yean and Nik Ahmad Kamal Nik Mahmod; 15. Domestic regulations and India's trade in health services: a study of hospital and telemedicine services Rupa Chanda and Pralok Gupta; 16. Operating integrated logistics services in a fragmented regulatory environment: what is the cost? Ruosi Zhang; 17. Domestic regulation of retail food distribution services in Israel: the missing link between food prices and social protest Tomer Broude and Lior Herman; 18. Regulatory impact analysis Darrell Porter and Lauren Wight; Part IV. Concluding Remarks: 19. Services liberalization, negotiations and regulation: some lessons from the GATS experience Hamid Mamdouh; 20. Addressing the domestic regulation and services trade interface: reflections on the way ahead Aik Hoe Lim and Bart De Meester.