Services Trade

Overcoming Border Bottlenecks: The Costs and Benefits of Trade Facilitation

12-Feb-2009

How do border bottlenecks affect trade and investment flows? How might these bottlenecks be reduced and is the expense involved worth it? These questions and others are examined in this collection of six studies.

Trade and Labour Market Adjustments

23-Apr-2008

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 64. This study describes recent developments in international trade and OECD labour markets and the links between them. It studies OECD labour market impacts of offshoring, trade in tasks and the integration of emerging economies in the world economy.  

Expanding international supply chains: The role of emerging economies in providing IT and business process services

29-May-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 52.  Services offshoring remains an elusive phenomenon. This paper takes a closer look at the increasing role of China, India, the Philippines and the Czech Republic in supplying business process services and IT services to OECD markets.

Modal estimates of services barriers

20-Apr-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 51.  This paper presents improved approaches to measurement of services barriers by using alternative weighting methods and improved econometric specifications.

Services trade and domestic regulation

18-Apr-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 49.  This paper argues that regulatory measures affect the fixed cost of entering a market as well as the variable costs of servicing that market.

Business services, trade and costs

05-Jan-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 46.  This paper analyses the role of business services in selected OECD and non-OECD economies with a comprehensive, quantitative cross-country analysis of how the manufacturing and business services sectors interact in the production process.

China's trade and growth: Impact on selected OECD countries

04-Dec-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 44.  Through an analysis of its integration into the world's goods and services markets, the paper examines China's influence on the global economy and impact on selected OECD countries.

World Bank/OECD Publication "Liberalisation and universal access to basic services"

10-Nov-2006

Launch of the publication "Liberalisation and universal access to basic services:  telecommunications, water and sanitation, financial services and electricity", November 15, 2006 - Palais des Nations, Geneva.

Logistics and time as a trade barrier

23-Jun-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 35.  This paper analyses the relation between time for exports and imports, logistics services and international trade.

Liberalising network infrastructure services and the GATS

24-May-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 34.  This study reviews key issues in liberalising network infrastructure services — including telecommunications, postal/courier, energy, water and sewage — in the national and multilateral contexts.