Applied Services Trade Policy : A Guide to the Services Trade Policy Database and the Services Trade Restrictions Index

Borchert, Ingo ; Gootiiz, Batshur ; Magdeleine, Joscelyn ; Marchetti, Juan A. ; Mattoo, Aaditya ; Rubio, Ester ; Shannon, Evgeniia

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: SERVICES TRADE;    TRADE POLICY;    INVESTMENT;    TRADE RESTRICTIONS;    TRADE IN SERVICES;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-9264
RP-ID  :  WPS9264

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper describes the Services TradePolicy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank andthe World Trade Organization Secretariat, which builds on adatabase developed by the World Bank nearly 10 years ago anddraws on a recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment database. The Services Trade Policy Databaseoffers comparable information on services trade policies for68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad areas --financial services, telecommunications, distribution,transportation, and professional services. The databasefeatures several improvements. First, the data are collectedaccording to a newly developed policy classification,consistent with the earlier World Bank database and thecurrent Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment database, enabling a comparison of servicespolicies over a significant period and across a largecross-section of industrial and developing economies.Second, in addition to trade policies, the database containsinformation on licensing conditions and data restrictions.Third, policy restrictiveness is quantified following a moresystematic approach that aggregates the information within asingle consistent and transparent framework. Building onthese innovations will make it possible to identify globalpatterns of services trade policies and secular trends inpolicy making over the past decade.