"Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge, because of the opaqueness … of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process. This paper attempts to assess what is … on the table. It presents the results of the first survey of applied trade policies in the major services sectors of 56 …

"Much attention has focused on the impact of the current crisis on goods trade; hardly any on its impact on services … services trade is weathering the current crisis much better than goods trade. As of February 2009, the value of US goods … imports had declined year-on-year by 33 percent and the value of goods exports by 21 percent; services imports and exports …

in Services (GATS) to commit to service sector policy reforms. They compare GATS commitments with the evolution of actual … commitments, the authors find an inverse relationship between the depth of GATS commitments and the "quality" of actual services …

Dixit-Stiglitz endogenous productivity effects from liberalization of import barriers against goods and FDI in services. The … the rest of the world. Foremost among the own reforms is liberalization of barriers against FDI in business services …

"The benefits of services trade reform are huge but services negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) are … should consider: (1) locking in the current openness of cross-border trade for a wide range of services; (2) eliminating … to fulfill specific services contracts. A deeper problem is that WTO members have sought to negotiate market access in …

"There is limited trade in health services despite big differences in the price of health care across countries …