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). But failure to implement complementary reform -- especially the introduction of competition in transport services -- may …
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World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …
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in promoting reform and mobilizing assistance, but substantial effort is still needed to translate notional benefits into …
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cautiously because the later years of the sample period saw a collapse in world trade, which may not have affected all firms …
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Studies on innovation and international trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because neither was seen as important for services. Moreover, the few existing studies on services focus only on industrial countries, although in many developing countries services are already the largest...
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The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in...
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dealing with undervalued exchange rates. This paper proposes new rules in the World Trade Organization to discipline cases of … WTO's enforcement mechanism is credible and effective. The World Trade Organization would not be involved in exchange rate … advantage of the two institutions, with the International Monetary Fund providing the essential technical expertise in the World …
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There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to … interests largely in the rich countries, is running out of steam; (ii) the world economy is moving broadly from conditions of …
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Recent empirical research has focused on the role of institutions in overall economic performance. This paper examines the impact of institutions on the relative performance of the service sector. Through cross-country level and growth regressions it establishes the following stylized fact:...
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The benefits of services trade reform are huge but services negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) are …
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