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(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …
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This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as a mechanism for multilateral liberalization efforts. It...
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A major challenge for the multilateral trading system is to secure the benefits of trade liberalization without infringing on the freedom of governments to pursue legitimate domestic objectives. The difficulty lies in distinguishing between two types of situations. In one, a non-protectionist...
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Countries that fully liberalize their telecommunications and financial services sectors may be able to expect economic growth rates up to 1.5 percentage points higher than rates in other countries. Mattoo, Rathindran, and Subramanian explain how the output growth effect from liberalizing the...
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June 2000 - Members of the World Trade Organization have decided provisionally to exempt electronic delivery of … in the World Trade Organization initially opposed WTO's decision to exempt electronic delivery of products from customs …
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World trade is increasingly ruled by preferential trade agreements (PTAs), but their precise nature remains relatively … set on preferential and non-preferential or Most Favored Nation (MFN) applied tariffs, constructed by the International … Trade Center and the World Bank. The data set covers 5,203 products, 199 reporters, and 239 partners, representing …
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This paper presents new data on the content of preferential trade agreements. The data contain detailed information on the 18 policy areas most frequently covered in preferential trade agreements, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive commitments, and other aspects such as transparency,...
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A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to flexibly infer border barriers are often missing for services, we derive a novel methodology for projecting output data. The empirical...
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