GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy

Publisher:  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa, Canada
Year Published:  2000
Pages:  136pp   ISBN:  0-88627-229-7
Library of Congress Number:  HF1379.S56 2000   Dewey:  382'.92
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7434

Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.

Subject Headings

• Corporate Agenda
• Corporate/Commercial Law
• Corporations
• General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
• Health Care Industry
• Health Care Privatization
• International Trade Agreements
• Privatization
• Service Exports
• Service Sector
• Socialism/Case for
• Trade Agreements
• Trade/International
• Trade Law
• Trade Liberalization
• Trade Negotiations
• Trade Services
• World Trade Organization (WTO)