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Trade in services : the most dynamic segment of international trade

World Trade Organization - 2015

Over the past 20 years, trade in services has become the most dynamic segment of world trade, growing more quickly than …, increasing their share in exports of world services from a quarter to one-third over this period. This brochure, produced to mark …

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A Simple Trade Policy Perspective on Capital Controls

World Trade Organization - 1998

This note discusses capital controls using insights from the trade policy literature. It highlights some key issues that have been neglected in the current international debate on capital controls. Capital is tradable in the same way as many goods and services are. As a result, much of the...

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Multilateral Approaches to Market Access Negotiations

World Trade Organization - 1998

Market access negotiations in merchandise trade at the multilateral level cover tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs). While tariffs have been substantially reduced in earlier rounds, they remain high in certain areas and further reductions involve a number of complex technical issues. Some...

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Preferential and Non-Preferential Trade Flows in World Trade

World Trade Organization - 1998

This paper quantifies the extent of preferential trade as a share of total world trade in different regions of the … world and for two periods. Results show that: i) preferential trade represented 40% of world trade in the period 1988 … shares in Asia and Oceania (around 4 per cent) and average values in the rest-of-the-world (Eastern Europe and Africa); iv …

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Trade Costs in the Global Economy : Measurement, Aggregation and Decomposition

World Trade Organization - 2021

Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed signifcant new developments, both on the theoretical and...

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