Liberalizing versus Facilitating Mode 4 Trade in Services
The growing importance of services trade for countries across the world is well-documented in the services and trade literatures. At the same time, regulatory and administrative barriers to the movement of service suppliers to deliver services inte...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/195731588697826057/Liberalizing-versus-Facilitating-Mode-4-Trade-in-Services http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33709 |
| Summary: | The growing importance of services trade
for countries across the world is well-documented in the
services and trade literatures. At the same time, regulatory
and administrative barriers to the movement of service
suppliers to deliver services internationally have resulted
in very low shares of "Mode 4" trade in total
services trade. Against this background, this paper
conceptualizes an agenda for trade facilitation in services
as it would apply to the movement of natural persons. It
also provides descriptive statistical evidence from the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development's Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
database. The paper differentiates between regulatory
measures that may improve transparency or facilitate access
for service providers and those measures that impede Mode 4
trade as well as the administrative, financial, and economic
costs of compliance with such measures. |
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