Liberalizing Trade In Services

Author : Bernard M. Hoekman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Acuerdos comerciales
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Liberalizing Trade in Services by Bernard M. Hoekman Pdf

Abstract: Since the mid 1980s a substantial amount of research has been undertaken on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the World Trade Organization or regional trade agreements, especially the European Union, but an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of services sector liberalization. This paper surveys the literature, focusing on contributions that investigate the determinants of international trade and investment in services, the potential gains from greater trade (and liberalization), and efforts to cooperate to achieve such liberalization through trade agreements. It concludes that there is increasing evidence that services liberalization is an important source of potential welfare gains, but relatively little research has been done that can inform the design of international cooperation-both trade agreements and development assistance-so as to more effectively promote development objectives.

Author : Pierre Sauve,Aaditya Mattoo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821383438

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Domestic Regulation and Service Trade Liberalization by Pierre Sauve,Aaditya Mattoo Pdf

Trade in services, far more than trade in goods, is affected by a variety of domestic regulations, ranging from qualification and licensing requirements in professional services to pro-competitive regulation in telecommunications services. Experience shows that the quality of regulation strongly influences the consequences of trade liberalization. WTO members have agreed that a central task in the ongoing services negotiations will be to develop a set of rules to ensure that domestic regulations support rather than impede trade liberalization. Since these rules are bound to have a profound impact on the evolution of policy, particularly in developing countries, it is important that they be conducive to economically rational policy-making. This book addresses two central questions: What impact can international trade rules on services have on the exercise of domestic regulatory sovereignty? And how can services negotiations be harnessed to promote and consolidate domestic policy reform across highly diverse sectors? The book, with contributions from several of the world's leading experts in the field, explores a range of rule-making challenges arising at this policy interface, in areas such as transparency, standards and the adoption of a necessity test for services trade. Contributions also provide an in-depth look at these issues in the key areas of accountancy, energy, finance, health, telecommunications and transportation services.

Author : Pierre Sauve,Robert M. Stern
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815716818

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GATS 2000 by Pierre Sauve,Robert M. Stern Pdf

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University publication With the negotiation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the policies affecting access to, and conditions of competition in, service markets are today firmly rooted in the multilateral trading system. Written with policymakers and practitioners in mind, the essays in this volume address some of the most pressing questions arising in services trade today—some of which were not addressed by the first generation of GATS negotiators.

Author : Juan A. Marchetti,Roy Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521516044

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Opening Markets for Trade in Services by Juan A. Marchetti,Roy Martin Pdf

This volume of essays explores the state of services liberalization and the regulation of international trade in services.

Author : Alan V. Deardorff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Comercio internacional
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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International Provision of Trade Services, Trade, and Fragmentation by Alan V. Deardorff Pdf

The author examines the special role that trade liberalization in services industries can play in stimulating trade in both services, and goods. International trade in goods requires inputs from such trade services as transportation, insurance, and finance, for example. Restrictions on services across borders, and within foreign countries add costs, and barriers to international trade. Liberalizing trade in services could also facilitate trade in goods, providing more benefits than one might expect from analysis merely of the services trade. To emphasize the point, the author notes that the benefits for trade are arguably enhanced by the phenomenon of fragmentation. The more that production processes become split across locations, with the fragments tied together, and coordinated by various trade services, the greater the gains from reductions in the costs of services. The incentives for such fragmentation can be greater across countries, than within countries, because of the greater differences in factor prices, and technologies. But the service costs of international fragmentation can also be larger, especially if regulations, and restrictions impede the international provision of services. As a result, trade liberalization in services can stimulate the fragmentation of production of both goods, and services, thus increasing international trade, and the gains from trade even further. Since fragmentation seems to characterize an increasing portion of world specialization, the importance of service liberalization is growing apace.

Author : Sherry Stephenson
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Barriers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Approaches to Liberalizing Services by Sherry Stephenson Pdf

Abstract: May 1999 - Liberalization of services at the subregional level has followed two broad approaches-the GATS model and the NAFTA model-neither of which automatically guarantees the full liberalization of trade in services. The question that participants in integration efforts at both the subregional and the broader regional level must ask is what kind of approach to liberalizing services offers both maximum transparency and the greatest degree of nondiscrimination for service suppliers. Only since completion of the Uruguay Round have developing countries in East Asia and the Western Hemisphere shown interest in liberalizing services. Ambitious efforts are now being made to incorporate services in liberalization objectives of both subregional and regional integration efforts, including in the Asia-Pacific region under APEC and in the Western Hemisphere under the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) process. At the subregional level, member countries of both ASEAN (in East Asia) and MERCOSUR (in Latin America) have chosen to follow the liberalization model set forth in the World Trade Organization's (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and to open their services markets gradually and piecemeal. In the Western Hemisphere, Mexico has successfully promoted the NAFTA model of a more comprehensive liberalization of services markets-and several Latin American countries have adopted the same approach. Regionally, APEC has chosen a concerted voluntary approach to liberalizing services markets. Within the Western Hemisphere, participants are defining which approach they will use in the negotiations on services launched as part of the FTAA in April 1998. In all these efforts, a stated desire to promote more efficient services markets is often hindered by reluctance to open services markets rapidly or comprehensively because of historically entrenched protectionism in the sector and ignorance of the regulatory measures that impede trade in services. Presumably it would be easier to liberalize services at the subregional level, among countries at similar stages of development (although liberalization's economic value there might be questioned). Liberalizing services at the broader regional level is a difficult and ambitious goal, given the diversity of countries involved in such efforts. Thus liberalization will probably move more slowly at the regional than at the subregional level-perhaps even more slowly than at the multilateral level. It is possible that the new round of multilateral talks on services scheduled to begin under the WTO in 2000 may well eclipse the recently begun regional efforts. This paper-a product of Trade, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to assist developing countries in the multilateral trade negotiations. The author may be contacted at [email protected].

Author : Herbert G. Grubel
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813035256

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Liberalization of Trade in Services by Herbert G. Grubel Pdf

This paper sorts out the issues over the liberalization of international trade in services which were likely to be discussed in the recent Uruguay Round.

Author : Aaditya Mattoo,Robert M. Stern,Robert Mitchell Stern,Gianni Zanini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199235216

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A Handbook of International Trade in Services by Aaditya Mattoo,Robert M. Stern,Robert Mitchell Stern,Gianni Zanini Pdf

This title provides a comprehensive introduction to the key issues in trade and liberalization of services. Providing a useful overview of the players involved, the barriers to trade, and case studies in a number of service industries, this is ideal for policymakers and students interested in trade.

Author : Matthias Lücke,Dean Spinanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Free trade
ISBN : UCSD:31822030183529

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Liberalizing International Trade in Services by Matthias Lücke,Dean Spinanger Pdf

Author : Barnali Choudhury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139789769

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Public Services and International Trade Liberalization by Barnali Choudhury Pdf

Does public service liberalization pose a threat to gender and human rights? Traditionally considered essential services provided by a state to its citizens, public services are often viewed as public goods which embody social values. Subjecting them to market ideology thus raises concerns that the intrinsic social nature of these services will be negated. Moreover, as those most likely to be reliant on public services, public service liberalization may also further marginalize women. Nevertheless, states continue to increasingly liberalize public services. Barnali Choudhury explores the implications of public service liberalization. Using primarily a legal approach, but drawing from case studies, empirical research and gender theories, she examines whether liberalization under the General Agreement on Trade in Services and other liberalization vehicles such as preferential trade and investment agreements compromise human rights and gender objectives.

Author : Barnali Choudhury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107026568

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Public Services and International Trade Liberalization by Barnali Choudhury Pdf

This books examines whether public service liberalization poses a threat to gender and human rights?

Author : Pierre Savu_,Anirudh Shingal
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782548966

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The Preferential Liberalization of Trade in Services by Pierre Savu_,Anirudh Shingal Pdf

This book fills an important gap in the trade literature by offering¾ a comprehensive cross-regional comparison of approaches to preferential market opening and rule-making in the area of trade in services. Chronicling the spectacular recent rise o

Author : Chantal Blouin,Nick Drager,Richard Smith
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821362127

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International Trade in Health Services and the GATS by Chantal Blouin,Nick Drager,Richard Smith Pdf

Health ministries around the world face a new challenge: to assess the risks and respond to the opportunities of the increasing openness in health services under the World Trade Organization's (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). 'International Trade in Health Services and the GATS' addresses this challenge head-on by providing analytical tools to policymakers in health and trade ministries alike who are involved in the liberalization agenda and, specifically, in the GATS negotiations. This book informs and assists policymakers in formulating trade policy and negotiating internationally. There is ongoing and animated international debate about the impact of GATS on public services in general and health in particular. In response, the book offers different perspectives from more than 15 leading experts. Some of the authors stress opportunities linked to trade in health services, others focus more on the risks. The book offers: Detailed legal analysis of the impact of the agreement on health policy An overview of trade commitments in health-related services New empirical evidence from nine country studies A simple 10-step explanation on how to deal with GATS negotiations. 'International Trade in Health Services and the GATS' is a must-have resource for policymakers and other practitioners working in the trade and health sectors.

Author : Greg McGuire,United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Exports
ISBN : 9211125561

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Trade in Services by Greg McGuire,United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Pdf

The service sector is the most important sector for most developed economies being the largest contributor to gross domestic product, production, and employment. Developing economies on the other hand have a comparative advantage in labor services, however, the export of many of these services is limited by many restrictions on the temporary movement of labor imposed through domestic regulation. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the international trade in services focusing on market access in foreign markets. It also explains how developing economies are dealing with the issue of trade restrictions so as to spur development of the service sector.

Author : Bregt Natens
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781785364310

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Regulatory Autonomy and International Trade in Services by Bregt Natens Pdf

This book considers how the interplay between multilateral and preferential liberalisation of trade in services increasingly raises concerns, both from the perspective of the beneficiaries of such liberalisation (whose rights are uncertain) and that of regulators (whose regulatory autonomy is constrained). The author shows how these concerns lead to vast underutilisation of, and strong prejudices against, the benefits of services liberalisation. The book meticulously analyses and compares the EU's obligations under the GATS and the services chapters of several RTAs to finally assess the merits of the raised concerns.