Services play a key role in enhancing competitiveness of manufacturing and establishing global value chains. Realising … the importance of services, a number of countries such as China, Taiwan, Philippines and United Arab Emirates (UAE, Dubai …) are focusing on special economic zones (SEZs) for services sectors. Moreover, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is yet to …

The importance of services trade and "servicification" of economic activity has grown in countries overtime. However … total services trade in 2005 and 2.9% in 2017. While trade costs for services have been computed in the literature, barriers … specific to Mode 4 services trade have not yet been quantified. We contribute by constructing an index to quantify regulatory …

commitments in services. This paper examines the CEPA with the objective of identifying potential areas for harnessing services … enhanced trade in services. The paper also draws a comparison between the schedules of commitments offered by India and Korea … concludes that there are strong complementarities for services trade in sectors such as IT, transportation, construction and …

Services are a major component of global gross domestic product and employment, and a rising component of global trade … foreign investment flows. India is among the top ten World Trade Organization member countries in trade in services, and the … country has a positive trade balance in services. However, global trade in services faces a number of barriers at the border …