While the importance of services sector in creating value added and employment has been recognized, the role of … services as providers of major inputs to production sector are often forgotten and overlooked. This paper stresses the … importance of services sector in supporting economic activities in general; the role that has become increasingly more critical …

While the importance of services sector in creating value added and employment has been recognized, the role of … services as providers of major inputs to production sector are often forgotten and overlooked. This paper stresses the … importance of services sector in supporting economic activities in general; the role that has become increasingly more critical …

While the importance of services sector in creating value added and employment has been recognized, the role of … services as providers of major inputs to production sector are often forgotten and overlooked. This paper stresses the … importance of services sector in supporting economic activities in general; the role that has become increasingly more critical …

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 …

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

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 …