Services - ranging from transport and telecommunications to health and education - account for an overwhelming share of overall economic activities, generating more than two-thirds of gross domestic product...
Despite its increasing importance worldwide, trade in services remains to be less transparent, more restrictive and more procedurally burdensome than trade in goods. Brazil’s significant evolution in the...
This study focuses on analyzing the different international agreements regulating trade in services in Africa. From the outset, this study recognizes that the gradual liberalization of trade in services...
This note describes how the Services Trade Restrictiveness Database (STRD) has been updated and expanded to African countries which have been traditionally underserved by the database. In addition, and...
A fundamental function of international trade agreements concerns the national political economy arena. In the field of international trade in services, the need for sound and long-term policies becomes...