economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been … restrictions on direct foreign investment in service sectors.Also, it may beasked why,if growth is to be the criterion of special … negotiating effort, the commodity-service dichotomy is relevant. Why not search for fast qrowing sectors amonq cammodities as well …

. We document that many disaggregated service categories--such as transportation, communication, and finance--feature a … differences across countries are larger in manufacturing than in services. The service sector comprises heterogeneous categories … document a substantial reallocation of expenditures in services from categories with positive income elasticities (traditional …

pollutants does the service sector account for even four percent of total emissions; for three of the five services account for … less than one percent. Second, those service industries that do pollute are the least likely to be traded internationally … services are not traded. Even if we limit attention to the services that are traded across borders, the service industries most …

and diversified in their service offerings and are less likely to do so with increasing age and greater geographical scope …

The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of …