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?Benchmarking? in GATS: Exposing the EU?s Aggressive Services Agenda
17 November, 2005
Peter Hardstaff, Head of Policy, World Development Movement
Introduction
The GATS has rightly come under massive public scrutiny over the past few years. Its rules impinge on new areas of government policy that, before the creation of the WTO in 1995, were not seen as