globalization of services and its implications for economies. The papers in this issue address various dimensions of the … globalization of services, including economic linkages between countries through trade and investment flows, people mobility and … outsourcing, protectionism in services, multilateral negotiations in services, the political economy of service sector reforms and …

Advances in communication technology make it possible for workers in India to supply business services to head offices …. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services …

(SMEs) in manufacturing and across different types of services. The study explores the extent to which binding constraints … faced by SMEs producing goods may differ from small firms operating in services sectors and takes stock of how existing … performance of SMEs in manufacturing, it is an ambiguous predictor of export performance in the case of small-sized services firms …

The paper provides an overview of the nature of trade in health services in the world economy. It oulines some of the … general implications of trade in health services for national health systems for aspects such as equity, efficiency, and … access to health services. [WP no. 70]. …

In the current debate on services offshoring, the New EU member states (NMS) have focused increasingly the attention of … countries have been considered as highly attractive locations for offshored services both from a European and global perspective …. While a fairly large amount of anecdotal evidence documents the NMS high potentialities in terms of services offshoring …

liberalization of trade in services, and launch a dialogue on domestic economic policies that can create negative spillover effects …

, industry and services; and (c) improving connectivity and liberalizing trade and investment regimes for greater exchange of … goods, services and capital. …

-regional investment and trade relations. The share of services in GDP of South Asian countries has increased substantially with South Asia … exhibiting a high revealed comparative advantage in commercial services and more particularly in other services including … computer and information technology enabled services. Analysis of the FDI inflows in South Asia reveals that the number of …