African Declaration on GATS and Internationalization

Higher Education and Gats

English CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND GATS

The remaining questions relate to practical implementation. What are the political and legal measures to preserve and promote cultural diversity? This question has to be answered primarily on the regional and national planes but is also relevant on the European and global levels. Moreover, what consequences arise from this for the ongoing negotiations on trade liberalization within the World Tr...

Recent Developments in GATS Negotiations and their Implications for African Countries

S is not a new issue in multilateral trade negotiations and was first mentioned in the Tokyo Round of trade talks in the late 1970’s. The item was first placed on the official agenda for negotiations by the USA in the lead-up to the Uruguay Round of trade talks in the 1980’s. However, less developed countries (LDCs) were quick to oppose its inclusion in GATT as they felt they had little to gain...

Internationalization

Globalization and internationalization are terms of the corporate world. In this scenario, mastering the English language is indispensable and with Brazilian science is not different. CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) and CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) have encouraged postgraduate programs and scientific research to effu...

Declaration of Olympia on nutrition and fitness.

The Second International Conference on Nutrition and Fitness met at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens, Greece, from 23 to 25 May 1992. The conference was organized by the Center for Genetics, Nutrition, and Health (U.S.A.), the Hellenic Sports Research Institute (Greece), and the Spyros Louis Olympic Athletic Center of Athens; its sponsors included numerous private-sector companies, governm...