Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical study of the contribution of the services sector to per capita economic growth for Pacific Island countries. Design/methodology/approach – Within the new growth theory framework, the empirical procedure consisted of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical study of the contribution of the services sector to per capita economic growth for Pacific Island countries. Design/methodology/approach – Within the new growth theory framework, the empirical procedure consisted of the...

This paper models the effect of the indicators of the domestic business environment on services trade in a sample of low, middle and high-income OECD countries. The findings reveal that the time required to enforce a contract is strongly negatively correlated with the growth in services exports...