GLOBAL – Higher education services talks at WTO to get push as global trade talks start last stage
April 1st, 2008
By Keith Nuthall
The long-sidelined services portion of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Doha Development Round is to get a push, reawakening hopes that access to foreign higher education markets could improve in global trade deal maybe coming this year.
WTO director general Pascal Lamy has launched "horizontal talks" at the trade body, which will allow negotiators to discuss the liberalisation of global services markets, food, industrial goods and other issues simultaneously.
The aim is to create opportunities for trade offs between these topics. ...
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