This study makes an attempt to assess the impact of trade liberalization on services sector employment. Based on the … imports have been estimated. After controlling for growth it is difficult to identify a positive and significant impact of … international trade on employment in the organized service sector. We have also tried to work out the direct and indirect effects of …

growth. The second is that PTAs, particularly ones that go beyond goods trade, are an effective way to promote economic …Two propositions appear to be gaining wide currency, given the revealed preference for preferential trade agreements … is called for. Current PTAs appear to be doing little to remove the important impediments to growth in the region. Far …

As a country progressively engages in international trade, its factors of production will enter increasingly into the …

illuminate the greater effectiveness of agriculture trade liberalisation in promoting the overall growth process, given increased …This paper studies dynamic effects of agriculture trade in the context of domestic and global liberalisation. Being the … largest sector of the economy, the agriculture sector contributes substantially to the growth process. Using a small CGE model …

implications for economic development. Using National Accounts Statistics and cross-county data, we show that the growth of … services has been broad-based. We show that the growth of service sector employment is not simply disguised manufacturing … underscores the importance for India of continuing to invest in labour skills. We conclude that sustaining economic growth and …

growth. It is in this context that this paper takes a look at the current situation. …

-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that … association. Here we identify two waves of service sector growth, a first wave in countries with relatively low levels of per … is not equally evident in all economies : it is most apparent in democracies, in countries that are open to trade, and in …

Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and …