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Record Nr.

UNINA9911079250503321

Autore

Tamirisa Natalia

Titolo

International Trade in Services : : Implications for the Fund / / Natalia Tamirisa, Alexander Lehmann, Jaroslaw Wieczorek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2003

ISBN

9781462349203

146234920X

9781455285105

1455285102

9781451972207

1451972202

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 p.)

Collana

IMF Policy Discussion Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

LehmannAlexander

WieczorekJaroslaw

Soggetti

Exports and Imports

Macroeconomics

Industries: Service

Industries: Financial Services

International Economic Order and Integration

Empirical Studies of Trade

Industry Studies: Services: General

Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation

Trade Policy

International Trade Organizations

Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions

Privatization

Contracting Out

International economics

Finance

Trade in services

Services sector

Financial services

Trade liberalization

International trade

Economic sectors

Balance of trade

Service industries

Financial services industry



Commercial policy

Indonesia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This paper reviews the characteristics of international trade in services and of the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) framework, which was established to regulate it. Further liberalization of services trade in developing countries, as currently envisaged in the context of the WTO Doha Development Agenda, holds a number of potential benefits, such as underpinning the liberalization of goods trade, but it is also being resisted due to its potential adjustment costs. Two implications for IMF activities are examined: coherence among the three principal international economic institutions and sequencing with macroeconomic stabilization and regulatory reforms.