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Moving People to Deliver Services

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is today dealing with an issue that lies at the interface of two major challenges the world faces, trade liberalization and international migration. Greater freedom for the "temporary movement of individual s...

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Main Authors:	Mattoo, Aaditya, Carzaniga, Antonia
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank and Oxford University Press 2013
Subjects:	WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL TRADE DELIVERY OF SERVICES RESOURCES MOBILIZATION RESOURCES UTILIZATION SKILLED WORKERS LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MOBILITY TRADE LIBERALIZATION SOCIAL CONDITIONS BRAIN DRAIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SERVICE PROVIDERS TRADE NEGOTIATIONS ACCOUNTING AGREEMENT ON TRADE BILATERAL AGREEMENTS COMMERCIAL PRESENCE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONCESSIONS COUNTRIES MUST CULTURAL IDENTITY DIRECT INVESTMENT DOHA DEVELOPMENT AGENDA DOMESTIC REGULATION ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES ECONOMIC DISTORTIONS ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS ECONOMIC WELFARE ECONOMISTS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT MARKET ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES EXPORTS FACTOR MOBILITY FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN FIRMS FOREIGN INVESTORS FOREIGN MARKETS FOREIGN PROVIDERS FOREIGN SERVICE PROVIDERS FOREIGN SOURCES FREE TRADE GATS GATS RULES GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY GNP GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT IMPORTS INCOME INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL MARKETS LABOR LAWS MARKET ACCESS MIGRATION MOVEMENT OF NATURAL PERSONS MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS MULTINATIONAL FIRMS MUTUAL RECOGNITION NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL TERRITORY OPENNESS PERSONAL SERVICES POLICY ENVIRONMENT PRESENCE OF NATURAL PERSONS PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESSIVE LIBERALIZATION PROVISION OF SERVICES QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS QUOTAS REAL WAGES REGIONAL TRADE REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS REGULATORY BARRIERS SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDER SERVICE SECTORS SERVICE SUPPLIER SERVICE SUPPLIERS SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS SERVICES SECTOR SERVICES TRADE SKILLED LABOR SOCIAL OBJECTIVES SOCIAL SECURITY SUBSIDIARY TAXATION TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE IN SERVICES TRADE POLICY TRADEOFFS TRANSPARENCY TRANSPORT UNSKILLED UNSKILLED WORKERS WORLD TRADE WTO
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/06/2599173/moving-people-deliver-services http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15088

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Summary:	The World Trade Organization (WTO) is today dealing with an issue that lies at the interface of two major challenges the world faces, trade liberalization and international migration. Greater freedom for the "temporary movement of individual service suppliers" is being negotiated under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Conditions in many developed economies - ranging from aging populations, to shortages of skilled labor - suggest that this may be a propitious time to put labor mobility, squarely on the negotiating agenda. Yet, there is limited awareness of how the GATS mechanism can be used to foster liberalization in this area of services trade. At the same time there is great concern, about the possible social disruption in host countries, and brain drain from poor countries. As a first step in improving our understanding of the implications of such liberalization, this volume brings together contributions from service providers, regulators, researchers and trade negotiators. They provide different perspectives on one central question: how is such liberalization best accomplished, in a way that benefits both home, and host countries? The result, combining insights from economics, law and politics, is bound to be a vital input into the WTO services negotiations, as well as the broader debate on the subject.