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Aid for Trade and Trade in Services [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Existing research generally finds weak positive effects of aid for trade (AfT) on aggregate merchandise trade of recipients once endogeneity in the AfT-trade relationship is accounted for.
Bernard Hoekman, Anirudh Shingal
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Services are the backbone of economic activities. They account for the majority of global GDP and employment, and their role in international trade has grown rapidly with the advances in information technology and globalization. This chapter outlines the definition and key features of services, explains how they are traded under the General Agreement ...
Andrea Ariu, Anca Cristea
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Services trade and growth [PDF]
International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 2009 The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in ...
Hoekman, Bernard, Mattoo, Aaditya
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Facilitating Trade in Services [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 In 2016, the Government of India proposed negotiations on an agreement to facilitate trade in services to complement the 2013 World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement in goods. The proposal did not find much support, but plurilateral talks launched in 2017 on various policy areas encompass areas that are very relevant from a services trade
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Applied Services Trade Policy: A Guide to the Services Trade Policy Database and the Services Trade Restrictions Index [PDF]
WTO Working Papers, 2019 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 and the WTO Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly ten years ago and draws ...
Borchert, Ingo +6 more
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Trade in Services: IT and Task Content [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 In this paper we investigate the determinants of the dramatic increase in services tradability focusing on the extensive margin of the phenomenon. We use balance sheet and rm-level service trade information over the period 1995-2005 provided by the National Bank of Belgium and we merge it with information on the evolution of information technology use ...
Andrea Ariu, Giordano Mion
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Services for Trade Competitiveness: Country and Regional Assessments of Services Trade [PDF]
, 2019 Recognizing that services affect the ability of countries and their firms to compete on international markets, the World Bank’s Trade and Regional Integration Unit has developed an extensive work program to promote the performance of countries’ domestic services sectors, including services trade.
Hollweg, Claire H., Sáez, Sebastián
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Multilateral Liberalization of Services Trade [PDF]
, 2002 This paper compares estimates of the gains from eliminating barriers to trade in services with those from eliminating post-Uruguay barriers remaining in the traditional areas of agriculture and manufacturing. It uses a model that incorporates a bilateral treatment of foreign direct investment, one of the key vehicles by which services are traded ...
Dee, Philippa, Hanslow, Kevin
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Trade in goods and trade in services
, 2018 This chapter examines basic features of services trade and asks how well current modeling strategies capture the features. It then proposes and quantifies extensions to a basic structural gravity model that incorporate these features. The extended model allows people to handle goods trade and services trade in an encompassing framework.
Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum
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Towards Automated Service Trading
, 2008 The service-oriented architecture is a promising means to support outsourcing amongst real-time enterprises. In this context, SLAs (Service Level Agreements) are essential because they grant guarantees about how a service must be provided or consumed.
Manuel Resinas +2 more
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