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Services Trade and Development
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 19.99Some see trade in services as irrelevant to the development agenda for least developed countries (LDCs). Others see few benefits from past market openings by LDCs. This book debunks both views. It finds that serious imperfections in Zambia's reform of services trade deprived the country of significant benefits and diminished faith in liberalization.... more...
Moving People to Deliver Services
World Bank Publications 2003; US$ 14.99The WTO is today dealing with an issue that lies at the interface of two major challenges the world faces, trade liberalization and international migration. Greater freedom for the temporary movement of individual service suppliers is being negotiated under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Conditions in many developed... more...
Domestic Regulation and Service Trade Liberalization
World Bank Publications 2003; US$ 34.99Trade 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.... more...
Greenprint
Center for Global Development 2013; US$ 14.99Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these three factors?which Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya... more...
Exporting Services
World Bank Publications 2012; US$ 34.99The past two decades have seen exciting changes with developing countries emerging as exporters of services. Technological developments now make it easier to trade services across borders. But other avenues are being exploited: tourists visit not just to sightsee but also to be treated and educated, service providers move abroad under innovative new... more...
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