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The Impact of Trade in Services on Factor Incomes : Results from a Global Simulation Model
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2009
Indian gross domestic product per capita increased rapidly between 2001 and 2006 in a climate of increasing services trade, with the export-oriented services sector responsible for rising shares of growth in gross domestic product. Due to its contribution to aggregate economic growth, there is a...
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Liberalizing Trade in Services : A Survey
Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2012
by the World Trade Organization or regional trade agreements, especially the European Union, but an increasing number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553850
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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552899
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Trade in International Maritime Services : How Much Does Policy Matter?
Fink, Carsten; Mattoo, Aaditya; Neagu, Ileana Cristina - 2001
practices. The authors propose developing such disciplines in the current round of services negotiations at the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572907
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Measuring Services Trade Liberalization and Its Impact on Economic Growth : An Illustration
Mattoo, Aaditya; Rathindran, Randeep; Subramanian, Arvind - 2001
The authors explain how the output growth effect from liberalizing the service sectors differs from the effect from liberalizing trade in goods. They also suggest using a policy-based rather than outcome-based measure of the openness of a country's service regime. They construct such openness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012573029
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Creative Trade for Human Development
Kabanda, Patrick - 2016
In recent years, international trade in creative goods and services has been expanding. But this upward march is not lifting all boats. Although many developing countries are endowed with vast cultural wealth, they still lag behind. In addition, women are not faring well. Much needs to be done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012571070
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Putting Services and Foreign Direct Investment with Endogenous Productivity Effects in Computable General Equilibrium Models
Tarr, David G. - 2012
With the growing importance of services and foreign direct investment in services, it is important to have a framework to analyze the impact of the liberalization of barriers to foreign direct investment in services. This paper summarizes several recent papers and builds policy-based computable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572461
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Impact of Services Liberalization on Industry Productivity, Exports and Development : Six Empirical Studies in the Transition Countries
Tarr, David G. - 2012
understand the impacts of services liberalization in the transition countries. For this reason, the World Bank Institute, under a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552128
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CGE Modeling of Market Access in Services
Christen, Elisabeth; Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, … - 2012
This paper examines how the applied multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) literature has moved into quantication of the impacts of greater market access for services. This includes discussion of multi-sector linkages to the service sector, as well both measuring barriers to trade and...
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Services Inputs and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Mattoo, Aaditya; Narciso, Gaia - 2012
services inputs. They use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for over 1,000 firms in 10 Sub-Saharan African countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553868