Services Trade

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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.




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