I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local...

Reading the GATS as ideology -- How the GATS was won (and lost?) -- Trade-related development -- The illusion of public services -- Ruling the services infrastructure -- Trade in people -- Minds and markets -- Dominion over the Earth-- Energy wars

This paper traces the development of the education sector from its nascent stage of serving economic development needs to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore's aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an important role in guiding and fostering development of...