This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....

The concept of development implies "a gradual evolution towards a higher stage phase, to gain significant scale, increasing evolve",which means, extrapolating from the economy, that development is an open process involving upward trend of economic and social phenomena as a result of action...