00751nam a2200085Ia 4500100002100000245009400021260000900115520052200124583001900646  aHOEKMAN, Bernard  aRegional and multilateral liberalization of service markets : complements or substitutes?  c1994  aCompares the major services-related regional agreements involving OECD countries, viz. EC, FTA, NAFTA, CER, in an attempt to determine the extent to which they go beyond the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in terms of effective liberalization of service markets.  Focuses on whether regional agreements and the multilateral process are complementary or substitute paths liberalizing services markets.  Suggests that regional and multilateral agreements display a fairly strong degree of complementarity.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR