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International trade in services : new trends and opportunities for developing countries / Olivier Cattaneo ... [et al.], editors

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C : World Bank, 2010Description: Online-Ressource (xix, 363 p) : ill ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0821383531
  • 082138354X
  • 9780821383544
  • 9780821383537
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780821383537 DDC classification:
  • 382/.45 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9989.D44
DOI: DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8353-7Online resources:
Contents:
Assessing the potential of services trade in developing countries: an overview / Olivier Cattaneo .. [et al.]Increasing labor mobility: options for developing countries / Sherry Stephenson and Gary Hufbauer -- Legal services: does more trade rhyme with better justice? / Olivier Cattaneo and Peter Walkenhorst -- Health without borders: international trade for better health systems and services / Olivier Cattaneo -- Market structure, liberalization, and trade: the case of distribution services / Julian Arkell -- Building empires overseas: internationalization in the construction services sector / Michael Engman -- Exporting information technology services: in the footsteps of India / Michael Engman -- Accounting services: ensuring good governance, financial stability, and economic growth through trade / Olivier Cattaneo and Peter Walkenhorst -- Engineering services: how to compete in the most global of the professions / Olivier Cattaneo, Linda Schmid and Michael Engman -- Understanding trade in environmental services: key issues and prospects / Nora Carina Dihel.
Summary: International trade in services also provides an assessment of how policy makers can further bolster their service industries by leveraging the changes prompted by technological advancements. The book provides policy recommendations that include the reduction of barriers to services trade across all sectors and the promotion of health- and environment-related development policies that should be promoted in parallel with a burgeoning services market. The first recommendation is considered the most important, because it focuses on the need to ensure trade openness, which helps ensure the access to services and promotes the quality of services provision through foreign and domestic competition. Moreover, the issue of temporary movement of labor is another focus of this book, given that it is one of the most important means of service exports for developing countries. This is an issue that is considered technically complex and politically sensitive because of its political and security implications. The book examines mechanisms that have been used by various countries to liberalize the temporary movement of persons and concludes that regardless of the negotiating forum- multilateral, regional, or bilateral-the policy making results on temporary movement of labor are, so far, modest and limited to a small range of categories. However, it proposes alternative ways to move forward that require further analysis by countries and relevant international organizations, including the World Bank.PPN: PPN: 834955997Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-110-WBL | ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBO
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