-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper … discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in … services may increase productivity at the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the firm. The authors explore what …

-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper … discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in … services may increase productivity at the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the firm. The authors explore what …

-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper … discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in … services may increase productivity at the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the firm. The authors explore what …

the openness of a country’s services regime. Such openness measures are constructed for two key service sectors, basic … telecommunications and financial services. Finally, it provides some econometric evidence-relatively strong for the financial sector and … less strong, but nevertheless statistically significant, for the telecommunications sector-that openness in services …

enterprises, particularly in the domain of services. This paper argues that since these rules depend largely on the other …, liberalization of services trade, aided by negotiations under the GATS, is leading to changes in market structure and the pattern of … infrastructural services for which Article VIII of GATS is most relevant. The behaviour of dominant suppliers that often remain does …

of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as …

of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as …