The GATS Debate: Refuting the WTO's "GATS - Fact and Fiction"

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On the eve of the an international gathering of anti-GATS campaigners that took place in Geneva, mid-March 2001, the WTO Secretariat released a paper entitled GATS - Fact and Fiction.

Most of the arguments in defense of the GATS brought forward by the WTO Secretariat have been refuted in the papers listed below.

• Separating WTO Fact and Fiction
  Ellen Gould, Council of Canadians (June 2001)

• The GATS Debate; A response to the common arguments used against the critics of the General Agreement on Trade in Services
  World Development Movement (June 2001)

• GATS - What Is Fact and What is Fiction?
  A Civil Society Response to the WTO's Publication "GATS -- Fact and Fiction" (25 May 2001)

• "GATS - Fact and Fiction" at best a partial truth
  Chakravarthi Ragavan, Third World Network (April 2001)

• Summary response to the World Trade Organisation document "GATS - Fact and Fiction"
  World Development Movement (April 2001)

• Technical Comments on the WTO's "GATS: Fact and Fiction"
  Vice Yu, Friends of the Earth International (April 2001)

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