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Singapore's inward and outward investments with industrialized countries in both manufacturing and service sectors were skill seeking while outward investments to developing countries were labor seeking. Applying the Knowledge-Capital model, it was found that services Foreign Direct Investment...
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new World Bank-WTO Services Trade Policy Database (STPD) to analyse the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 …
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analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … and the WTO Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly ten years ago and draws on a recent … classification, consistent with both the earlier World Bank database and the current OECD database, enabling for the first time a …
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analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … and the WTO Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly ten years ago and draws on a recent … classification, consistent with both the earlier World Bank database and the current OECD database, enabling for the first time a …
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new World Bank-WTO Services Trade Policy Database (STPD) to analyse the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 …
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Professional services matter for development in East Africa. Business services, including professional services, are among the most dynamic services sectors; and are a key input for other sectors. Greater use of professional services by East African firms is associated with higher labor...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) can take place either through the direct entry of foreign firms or the acquisition of existing domestic firms. The preferences of a foreign firm and the host country government over these two modes of FDI are examined in the presence of costly technology transfer....
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"There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to … interests largely in the rich countries, is running out of steam; (ii) the world economy is moving broadly from conditions of … commonality of interests and scope for give-and-take on these new issues make multilateral cooperation worth attempting. "--World …
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