Liberalizing Trade in Services : A Survey

Hoekman, Bernard

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ABSENCE OF COMPETITION;    ABSOLUTE VALUE;    ADVERSE EFFECTS;    AGREEMENT ON TRADE;    AGRICULTURE;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-4030
RP-ID  :  WPS4030

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Since the mid 1980s a substantial amount of research has been undertaken on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the World Trade Organization or regional trade agreements, especially the European Union, but an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of services sector liberalization. This paper surveys the literature, focusing on contributions that investigate the determinants of international trade and investment in services, the potential gains from greater trade (and liberalization), and efforts to cooperate to achieve such liberalization through trade agreements. It concludes that there is increasing evidence that services liberalization is an important source of potential welfare gains, but relatively little research has been done that can inform the design of international cooperation-both trade agreements and development assistance-so as to more effectively promote development objectives.