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The Doha Development Agenda and GATS: The Benefits of Open Services Markets
This paper discusses why opening up global trade and investment in services must be a cornerstone of any successfully completed Doha Development Agenda (DDA). An ambitious outcome on services can provide a major impetus for – and form an essential complement to - equally ambitious negotiated outcomes in agriculture and industrial goods. The Doha Round offers a unique opportunity to lock-in the far-reaching liberalization of services markets that has been achieved worldwide during the past decade and to open up new sectors to competition in a progressive manner. 

The Doha Development Agenda and GATS: The Benefits of Open Services Markets (pages: 36)