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(SMEs) in manufacturing and across different types of services. The study explores the extent to which binding constraints … faced by SMEs producing goods may differ from small firms operating in services sectors and takes stock of how existing … performance of SMEs in manufacturing, it is an ambiguous predictor of export performance in the case of small-sized services firms …
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This paper takes stock of the forces that lie behind the recent rise of preferential agreements in services trade. Its … initial focus is with a number of distinguishing features of services trade that sets it apart from trade in goods and shapes … trade liberalization and rule-making approaches in the services field. The paper then documents the nature, modal and …
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The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to … distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach that focuses on the legal and institutional …
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Services sector has emerged as the largest and fastest-growing sector in the world economy in the last two decades … this period. The growing importance of services sector and the corresponding rise in its role in integrating the world … services sector grown in terms of its share in global output and employment, its share in total trade has also grown rapidly in …
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This paper paints the first empirical portrait of services firms in the developing world. Compared with manufacturers … than for services exporters, the reverse is often true for foreign-owned firms. …
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Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business … business services. Following a general discussion, we calibrate a numerical general-equilibrium simulation model to a situation … in which both trade and foreign investment in services are initially banned to technically infeasible. We then compute …
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Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by … the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services … sector liberalization. The literature touches on important linkages between trade and FDI in services and the general pattern …
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Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by … the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services … sector liberalization. The literature touches on important linkages between trade and FDI in services and the general pattern …
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