Better information on how services policies vary across economies and sectors over time would improve the empirical … analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … OECD database. The STPD offers comparable information on services trade policies for 68 economies in 23 subsectors across …

services, respectively. Policy measures are quantified into a Services Trade Restrictions Index (STRI) following a novel …Are changes in services markets provoking reform, restrictions, or inertia? To address this question, we draw upon a … new World Bank-WTO Services Trade Policy Database (STPD) to analyse the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 …

, transportation, and professional services. Policy measures are quantified into a Services Trade Restrictions Index (STRI) following a …Are changes in services markets provoking reform, restrictions, or inertia? To address this question, this paper draws … on a new World Bank-World Trade Organization Services Trade Policy Database. The paper analyzes the services trade …

The water in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) refers to the difference between the bound level of … trade restrictiveness permitted by the GATS and the actual trade regime. Using the OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index … (STRI), this report provides estimates of the water in 15 service sectors for 40 countries. The level of water in GATS …

This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development database. The Services Trade Policy Database offers comparable information … on services trade policies for 68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad areas -- financial services …

The services sector plays a vital infrastructure role in national economies, employs more people than other sectors …, and is the most dynamic sector of world trade. New negotiations under the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services …, which began in January 2000, offer an important opportunity to reap the benefits of greater openness in services markets …

This paper discusses the nature and scope of international trade in environmentally related services, and analyses the … implications that services trade restrictions have on the provisions of these services domestically and abroad. Numerous services …-treatment facility or a renewable power plant. By helping lower the costs of these services and improving access to world-class suppliers …

trade barriers. The OECD Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (Digital STRI) is a new tool that identifies …Digital transformation has enabled easier tradability of traditional services across borders and the emergence of new … services that create value from data. But the benefits derived from digitalisation risk being derailed by existing and emerging …