Services Trade and Growth

38 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Bernard Hoekman

European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Economic Research Forum (ERF)

Aaditya Mattoo

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Date Written: January 1, 2008

Abstract

The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in services may increase productivity at the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the firm. The authors explore what recent empirical work suggests could be done to enhance comparative advantage in the production and export of services and how to design policy reforms to open services markets to greater foreign participation in a way that ensures not just greater efficiency but also greater equity in terms of access to services.

Keywords: Economic Theory & Research, Banks & Banking Reform, Transport Economics Policy & Planning, ICT Policy and Strategies, Emerging Markets

Suggested Citation

Hoekman, Bernard and Mattoo, Aaditya, Services Trade and Growth (January 1, 2008). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4461, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1080476

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