. The World Trade Organization's Hong Kong Ministerial had set out ambitious goals for services but the analysis here shows …"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 …

"The benefits of services trade reform are huge but services negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) are … source countries-to screen services providers, accept and facilitate their return, and combat illegal migration. "--World … should consider: (1) locking in the current openness of cross-border trade for a wide range of services; (2) eliminating …

outsourcing and information technology services, have suffered much smaller declines in total exports to the United States than …"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 …

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 … monitoring and the need for transparency to increase the benefits of WTO membership to small countries. "--World Bank web site …