Beyond the gats: Implicit engines in services RTAs

Information retrieval in the Web: beyond current search engines

In this paper we briefly explore the challenges to expand information retrieval (IR) on the Web, in particular other types of data, Web mining and issues related to crawling. We also mention the main relations of IR and soft computing and how these techniques address these challenges. 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

The contribution of services liberalization to poverty reduction: What role for the GATS?

Web Services: Beyond the Hype

Computer F or the past six months, the technology media has been full of articles about Web services (WS), focusing largely on Microsoft’s .NET initiative. Proponents call it “the next big thing” in computing, and although WS vendors have not delivered their systems yet, there is already a Web Services Journal. WS comprises a set of platform-neutral technologies designed to ease the delivery of...

The Determinants of GATS Commitment Coverage

This paper investigates hypotheses about the determinants of trade and investment liberalization with a particular focus on the market access commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). We identify a positive impact of country size on the absolute coverage ratio, i.e. the ratio of the sum of weighted commitments to the number of possible commitments. Contrary to our the...

Market Structure, Trade Liberalization and the Gats

In this paper we examine the interaction between the different modes of market access commitments in services (cross-border and establishment) market structure, and regulation. In this context, we focus on the impact of improved domestic market access for a foreign service provider on a domestic service market. We work with a model where the domestic industry is assumed to be imperfectly compet...