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Elevating services : services trade policy, WTO commitments, and their role in economic development and trade integration
Roy, Martin - 2019 - Manuscript date: March 2019
Services have long been perceived as playing a secondary role in world trade. In particular, the role of services trade policies and multilateral services commitments often tends to be downplayed. However, in value added terms, services account for about 50% of world trade and are significant in...
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The building block versus stumbling block debate of regionalism : from the perspective of service trade liberalization in Asia
Hamanaka, Shintaro - 2009
initiatives reinforce the global services regime. This paper proposes an amendment of the current GATS Article V to define the …
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Water in the GATS : methodology and results
Miroudot, Sébastien; Pertel, Kätlin - 2015
The water in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) refers to the difference between the bound level of … trade restrictiveness permitted by the GATS and the actual trade regime. Using the OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index … (STRI), this report provides estimates of the water in 15 service sectors for 40 countries. The level of water in GATS …
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Services trade and policy
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2010
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Trade in services, trade agreements and economic development : a survey of the literature
Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2006
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Austria's potential for trade in services
Brandicourt, Vianney; Schwellnus, Cyrille; Wörz, Julia - 2008
We estimate the potential for trade in services in a 2-step approach using a gravity model for a sample of bilateral service trade flows in individual service categories between 65 countries over the period 2000 to 2005. In particular, we focus on the Austrian economy's potential for untapped...
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The impact of service and goods offshoring on employment : firm-level evidence
Ornaghi, Carmine; Van Beveren, Ilke; Vanormelingen, Stijn - 2017
Advances in communication technology have led to a remarkable increase in the tradability of services, resulting in a substantial increase in offshoring of services over the last two decades. Research investigating how this surge in service offshoring affects employment, has been largely...
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Making Thailand's services sector more competitive through international trade
Suzuki, Kosuke; Ayudhaya, Manasit Choomsai Na; Lenain, … - 2020
Services are an important part of global economic activity and of international trade. Nevertheless, compared to its very large tourism sector, the sector of high-end business services in Thailand remains small. As IT and information, and professional services are traded indirectly through value...
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Services Domestic Regulation - locking in good regulatory practices : analyzing the prevalence of Services Domestic Regulation disciplines and their potential linkages with economi...
Baiker, Laura; Bertola, Elena; Jelitto, Markus - 2021 - Manuscript date: 15 September 2021
Services is the fastest-growing sector of today's global economy and trade in services is the most dynamic segment of world trade. However, its potential remains constrained by a variety of barriers: trade costs are estimated to be almost double those in goods, and more than 40% of trade costs...
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