International Trade in Services: New Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries

Olivier Cattaneo, Michael Engman, Sebastián Sáez and Robert Stern

No 2476 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health; Nutrition and Population-Health Monitoring and Evaluation Private Sector Development-Emerging Markets International Economics and Trade-Trade and Services Environment-Environmental Economics & Policies Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures Health; Nutrition and Population Public Sector Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8213-8353-7
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