Services barriers and their economic impact: Examples of banking and telecommunications services in selected transition economies

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07-Oct-2004

Nora Dihel and Blanka Kalinova

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 7.  This paper applies the most advanced methodologies for measuring services barriers to calculate the restrictiveness and the impact of services barriers in selected transition economies (for telecommunications, banking and telecommunications).

Managing request-offer negotiations under the GATS: The case of legal services

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14-Jun-2004

Massimo Geloso Grosso

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 2.   This study forms part of on-going OECD work on trade in services, in cooperation with UNCTAD, aimed at assisting WTO Members in managing request-offer negotiations under the GATS.

Services trade liberalisation: Identifying opportunities and gains

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06-Feb-2004

Julia Nielson and Daria Taglioni

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 1.   This study has two components: identification of concrete examples of services exports by developing countries, and quantitative studies on the gains from services liberalisation.

OECD Forum on Trade in Services in South Eastern Europe - Report on the Meeting

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12-Jan-2004

OECD Forum on Trade in Services in South Eastern Europe - Report on the Meeting

Managing Request-Offer Negotiations under the GATS: The Case of Energy Services

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05-Nov-2003

This paper is part of an ongoing OECD-UNCTAD project aimed at assisting WTO members, in particular developing countries, to successfully conduct the "request-offer" stage of the GATS negotiations.

Managing Request-Offer Negotiations under the GATS: The Case of Insurance Services

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05-Nov-2003

This paper is part of the on-going project on trade in services to produce a set of sector specific checklists in partnership with UNCTAD aimed at assisting WTO members, in particular developing countries, to successfully conduct the request offer stage of the GATS negotiations.

Experience of the Baltic States in Managing Multilateral Negotations on Trade in Services

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26-May-2003

The paper presents the results of a survey on the Baltic States' experience with intragovernmental co-ordination and consultations with domestic stakeholders carried out in preparation for multilateral ...

Managing Request-Offer Negotiations under the GATS: Survey of Country Preparations for the Negotiations

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26-May-2003

Trade negotiations have become the focus of unprecedented public attention and interest. Economic globalisation has heightened people's sense of the degree to which international trade affects their daily ...

Service Providers on the Move: The Economic Impact of Mode 4

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19-Mar-2003

Mode 4 is the least well understood of the service supply modes covered in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): uncertainty still surrounds its definition, its measurement, and its economic ...

Service Providers on the Move: Mutual Recognition Agreements

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07-Feb-2003

In the context of the current GATS negotiations, some countries are expecting advances on movement of natural persons as service providers under Mode 4 and have highlighted the importance of parallel progress ...