ISBN: 0731536770 9780731536771

Category: Business & Economics / General

Page count: 288

The quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the services sector are essential to economic growth and development. Despite this, liberalization of services sectors and services trade has often been slow and limited. Focusing especially on the interests of developing economies, this timely publication provides a review of the challenges of liberalization and facilitation of trade in services. It draws together the experience, insight and knowledge of many trade policy experts and practitioners throughout the world on issues that are critical to the current services debate and particularly to the ongoing services negotiations under the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services. This book is an indispensable guide to the major issue in world trade in the coming years.