The purpose of the paper is to examine convergence of economic interests – both empirically
and theoretically – among labor-abundant (labor-sending) and labor scarce (labor receiving) countries, in
the context of Mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of theWTO. The paper also
explores regional trade associations as an in terim alternative forum for promoting temporary cross-border
labor mobility in the backdrop of failure of multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Round