Services Unbound

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No 42486 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: Services are a new force for innovation, trade, and growth in East Asia and Pacific. The dramatic diffusion of digital technologies and partial policy reforms in services--from finance, communication, and transport to retail, health, and education--is transforming these economies. The result is higher productivity and changing jobs in the services sector, as well as in the manufacturing sectors that use these services. A region that has thrived through openness to trade and investment in manufacturing still maintains innovation-inhibiting barriers to entry and competition in key services sectors. 'Services Unbound: Digital Technologies and Policy Reform in East Asia and Pacific' makes the case for deeper domestic reforms and greater international cooperation to unleash a virtuous cycle of increased economic opportunity and enhanced human capacity that would power development in the region.

Keywords: Information; and; Communication; Technologies-ICT; Applications; Social; Protection; and; Labor-Labor; Policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4648-2082-3
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