00827nam a2200121Ia 450000500170000010000210001724500940003826000090013252005220014158300190066394200060068299900170068820260716043327.0  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  cA  c44939d44939