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Creating competitive services markets must be the guiding principle for Asian policymakers
M. Noland; D. Park; G.B. Estrada / Asian Development Bank, 2012
The maturing of the manufacturing sector in many Asian countries, combined with the relative backwardness of its service sector, has made service sector development a top priority for developing Asia. This paper surveys and analyses t...
Services liberalisation in South Asia
P.R. Pandey / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
The services sector is the largest productive sector in all the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) economies (except Afghanistan), accounting for more than half of domestic output and an even larger share in econ...
Developing countries and trade in environmental services - the greatest opportunities lie in environmental consulting services
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
The market for environmental services is substantial and growing. This policy brief argues that if well managed, liberalisation of trade in environmental services can provide substantial benefits to the private sector as well as the g...
Invented solutions to support developing countries’ trade in environmental goods
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
Trade liberalisation can provide access to green goods and technologies at lower cost and greater efficiency. This paper illustrates that liberalising trade in environmental goods can create new markets and export opportunities, thus ...
Liberalising services to generate both growth and employment in developing countries
S. Karmakar / Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2008
Services have become the main source of growth in even the lowest income developing countries. Therefore, this paper reviews India’s experience with services to understand how service sector liberalisation can generate wel...
Is the retail carbon offset market living up to its potential?
M.,C. Trexler; L., H. Kosloff; K. Silon / The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace, 2008
Based on an initiative taken by two environmentally minded entrepreneurs, there is now a long line of efforts to encourage individuals and companies to go partially or entirely “carbon neutral” by developing products and s...
Preferential market opening in services likely to be less harmful for the multilateral trading system than other PTAs
C. Fink / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, 2008
To examine preferential services liberalisation and its consequences for the multilateral trading system, this paper: reviews the discriminatory nature of preferential trade agreement (PTA) commitments examine...
The World Bank's strategy for implementing Payment for Environmental Services (PES)  
S. Pagiola; G. Platais / Environment Department, World Bank, 2008
The valuable environmental services provided by natural ecosystems are too often lost as a result of mismanagement and lack of incentives to preserve them. Helping countries find innovative solutions to such problems—which inter...
Barriers to trade in higher education services in Asia-Pacific countries
A. Raychaudhuri; P. De / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
Discusses prominent examples of trade in education services from across developing countries Asia and Pacific Region and measures selected barriers through panel data modelling (PDM) analysis. The authors argue that du...
Negotiator's guide to trade in services
South Centre, 2007
African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are in the midst of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) negotiations with the European Union (EU). Trade in services is renowned as one of the most complicated areas of these negotiatio...
Items 1 to 10 of 81

Items 1 to 10 of 81

Creating competitive services markets must be the guiding principle for Asian policymakers
M. Noland; D. Park; G.B. Estrada / Asian Development Bank, 2012
The maturing of the manufacturing sector in many Asian countries, combined with the relative backwardness of its service sector, has made service sector development a top priority for developing Asia. This paper surveys and analyses t...
Services liberalisation in South Asia
P.R. Pandey / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
The services sector is the largest productive sector in all the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) economies (except Afghanistan), accounting for more than half of domestic output and an even larger share in econ...
Developing countries and trade in environmental services - the greatest opportunities lie in environmental consulting services
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
The market for environmental services is substantial and growing. This policy brief argues that if well managed, liberalisation of trade in environmental services can provide substantial benefits to the private sector as well as the g...
Invented solutions to support developing countries’ trade in environmental goods
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
Trade liberalisation can provide access to green goods and technologies at lower cost and greater efficiency. This paper illustrates that liberalising trade in environmental goods can create new markets and export opportunities, thus ...
Liberalising services to generate both growth and employment in developing countries
S. Karmakar / Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2008
Services have become the main source of growth in even the lowest income developing countries. Therefore, this paper reviews India’s experience with services to understand how service sector liberalisation can generate wel...
Is the retail carbon offset market living up to its potential?
M.,C. Trexler; L., H. Kosloff; K. Silon / The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace, 2008
Based on an initiative taken by two environmentally minded entrepreneurs, there is now a long line of efforts to encourage individuals and companies to go partially or entirely “carbon neutral” by developing products and s...
Preferential market opening in services likely to be less harmful for the multilateral trading system than other PTAs
C. Fink / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, 2008
To examine preferential services liberalisation and its consequences for the multilateral trading system, this paper: reviews the discriminatory nature of preferential trade agreement (PTA) commitments examine...
The World Bank's strategy for implementing Payment for Environmental Services (PES)  
S. Pagiola; G. Platais / Environment Department, World Bank, 2008
The valuable environmental services provided by natural ecosystems are too often lost as a result of mismanagement and lack of incentives to preserve them. Helping countries find innovative solutions to such problems—which inter...
Barriers to trade in higher education services in Asia-Pacific countries
A. Raychaudhuri; P. De / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
Discusses prominent examples of trade in education services from across developing countries Asia and Pacific Region and measures selected barriers through panel data modelling (PDM) analysis. The authors argue that du...
Negotiator's guide to trade in services
South Centre, 2007
African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are in the midst of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) negotiations with the European Union (EU). Trade in services is renowned as one of the most complicated areas of these negotiatio...
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