Policy Brief: Opening up Trade in Services: Key for Tourism Growth

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28-Feb-2008

Tourism is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing industries and its importance for economic development is widely acknowledged. What makes tourism different from many other services is that the ...

Policy Brief: South-South Trade: Vital for Development

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12-Sep-2006

The most effective way to make trade work for development and poverty reduction is for countries to agree on much improved market access under the Doha round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO). ...

Policy Brief : Making open markets work for development

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07-Oct-2005

Will developing countries really gain substantially from further multilateral trade liberalisation? This is a vital issue for the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) ...

Policy Brief: Opening up Trade in Services - Opportunities and Gains for Developing Countries

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27-Aug-2003

Services, from health and education to telecommunications and transport, are becoming the single largest sector in many economies. Not only do they provide the bulk of employment and income in many countries, ...

Policy Brief: Open Services Markets Matter

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22-Oct-2001

Despite the failure of WTO members to launch a new round at the 3rd Ministerial Conference held in Seattle at the end of 1999, further negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) ...