Les négociateurs commerciaux de l'OMC ont identifié quatre modes d'échange de services : l'échange transfrontière, la consommation à l'étranger, la présence commerciale et la présence de personnes physiques. Les entraves aux échanges de services s'étendent donc aux réglementations...

Trade in services covers four modes of supply: cross-border trade, consumption abroad, commercial presence and presence of natural persons. Thus, impediments to trade in services involve the regulatory framework. Domestic reforms are at stake to provide falling prices and technology transfers...

Theoretically, welfare gains from liberalisation of trade in services arise from falling prices and technology transfers from foreign firms. Empirically, due to the role of the regulatory framework in barriers to trade in services ('behind-the-border' laws) substantial gains are only reached...

<alinea/> During the last few years a lot of papers have been written about ?social capital?. These papers are of two types. One sort of papers are looking for the definition of ?social capital? and their main subject is the theoretical relevance of the concept ; another approach looks for empirical...