Given the magnitude of services growth and its inter-linkages with other sectors of the economy, it is important to … understand the impact of services sector on other macro-economic variables. The present paper attempts to identify some of the … critical issues in India’s services-led growth and tests certain hypotheses that are currently in debate. These relate to: (a …

personal services) sectors display strong long-run equilibrium relationship amongst each other. These sectors also display …

of those 33 available tourist services and amenities in the district. …

We consider the determinants of exports of services, distinguishing between modern and traditional services. We … whether the determinants of export growth rates and surges differ between merchandise, traditional services and modern … services and whether developing countries are different. Our findings confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for …

In this article the author, after a critical assessment of the main notions of services developed in economics …, presents a revised definition of services based on process analysis. A corresponding distinction is made between material and … non-material goods, on the one hand, and services, on the other hand. The proposed definition is applied to extend Sraffa …

India’s success story in services is well documented at the national level, but similar literature does not exist for … India’s states. In this paper, we bridge this gap in research by looking at India’s services growth at the sub … services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …

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 …

This paper studies the government procurement of services from foreign suppliers by conducting a statistical analysis … suppliers in services procurement. Our results indicate that despite the GPA, the proportions of services contracts awarded to … foreigners have declined over time for both countries and that in the absence of this decline, the value of services contracts …