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Stephenson, Sherry; Robert, Maryse --- "Innovating regionalism: the Americas" [2014] ELECD 335; in Sauvé, Pierre; Shingal, Anirudh (eds), "The Preferential Liberalization of Trade in Services" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) 101

Book Title: The Preferential Liberalization of Trade in Services

Editor(s): Sauvé, Pierre; Shingal, Anirudh

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781782548959

Section: Chapter 4

Section Title: Innovating regionalism: the Americas

Author(s): Stephenson, Sherry; Robert, Maryse

Number of pages: 59

Abstract/Description:

More than any other region in the world, the Americas was the first to embrace regionalism wholeheartedly and has remained at the forefront in developing innovative approaches to the treatment of services trade. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, numerous countries in the Americas undertook reforms aimed at dismantling protectionist measures in their own markets and at promoting a more open and dynamic pattern of integration into the world economy. In several countries, trade in services and investment rulemaking were at the forefront of the reforms being undertaken. It was felt that easing restrictions on foreign investment could foster economic growth and that removing barriers to trade in services could lead to lower prices, improved quality and greater variety of both goods and services, as well as stimulate exports.