The service sector is evolving. New services and new modes of delivering existing services have increased the … complexities of services negotiations in the WTO and in FTAs. The WTO negotiations focus on market access but FTAs tend to go … beyond market access to seeking regulatory commitments from trading partners. India is a proponent of services liberalisation …

liberalization of services trade would affect Pakistans competitiveness. Focusing on the opportunities and risks of such … be needed to achieve these goals. The sectors studied in this paper are (a) construction and related engineering services …; (b) architecture, engineering and integrated engineering services; (c) energy services; and (d) environmental services. …

, industry and services; and (c) improving connectivity and liberalizing trade and investment regimes for greater exchange of … goods, services and capital. …

services has been broad-based. We show that the growth of service sector employment is not simply disguised manufacturing … modern sector and that modern services are only a viable destination for the highly skilled few. To the extent that the … expansion of both modern manufacturing and modern services is constrained by the availability of skilled labour, this just …

traditional services, the second wave of modern (financial, communication, computer, technical, legal, advertising and business …) services that are receptive to the application of information technologies and increasingly tradable across borders. In …

the possibilities of liberalizing trade in telecommunication services if India and its largest trading partnerthe USenter … services and that it should be a priority sector in the FTA negotiations. The study identified certain areas such as R … mutually beneficial. The study found that telecommunication services have been significantly liberalized in the US FTAsmuch …

public ownership and important regulatory barriers continue to dominate the services sectors. India has gone a long way in … in certain segments of the services sector but its services trade policy is still very restrictive, even as compared to … the remaining goods and services trade barriers are just but one item on the list of reforms that India needs to tackle in …

partners. In this context, the present paper discusses the prospects of liberalizing audiovisual services under a possible Indo …

-regional investment and trade relations. The share of services in GDP of South Asian countries has increased substantially with South Asia … exhibiting a high revealed comparative advantage in commercial services and more particularly in other services including … computer and information technology enabled services. Analysis of the FDI inflows in South Asia reveals that the number of …

This study is an inter-sectoral analysis of state domestic product data to understand the determinants of the services … sector growth in India during the recent years. It is a demand side analysis where the services sector output of a specific … important determinant of the services sector growth, the commodity-producing sector of the country outside the state does play a …