WTO domestic regulation and services trade : putting principles into practice

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 Nordas 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.