Documents et rapports
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Mozambique Economic Update : Shaping the Future - Why Services Matter for Growth and Jobs (anglais)
With economic growth reaching 3.7 percent in 2022, Mozambique’s economy is gaining momentum amid a challenging global context. Agriculture and services saw a good performance, owing to higher agricultural...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 180752 Date du document: 1 mars 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gebregziabher,Fiseha Haile,Massarongo Chivulele,Fernanda Ailina Pedro,Pijuan Sala,Albert,Abreha,Kaleb Girma,Casal,Julian,Negre Rossignoli,Mario,Da Maia,Carlos Chadreque Penicela,Castelo,Vanda Isabel
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Investment Facilitation and Mode 3 Trade in Services : Are Current Discussions Addressing the Key Issues ? (anglais)
Based on a novel approach to measuring the cost of trade in services for Modes 1 (cross-border supply), 2 (consumption abroad), and 4 (temporary movement of service suppliers), developed by the World Trade...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9229 Date du document: 5 mai 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Echandi,Roberto,Sauve,Pierre
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Russia’s ambitious broadband goal : is the progress sustainable? (anglais)
In 2012, the Russian Federation announced one of the world’s more ambitious broadband Internet development goals: providing 80 percent of Russian households with ultrafast connection speeds - at least...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 103839 Date du document: 1 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gelvanovska,Natalija,Rossotto,Carlo Maria,Gunzburger,Michael Lee
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Kazakhstan - Fostering Productive Innovation Project : environmental management framework (russe)
The development objective of the Fostering Productive Innovation Project for Kazakhstan is to promote high-quality, nationally relevant research, and commercialization of technologies. Some of the negative...
Type de document: Évaluation environnementale Numéro du rapport: E4640 Date du document: 1 août 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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The trade-reducing effects of restrictions on liner shipping (anglais)
This paper examines how policy governing the liner shipping sector affects maritime transport costs and seaborne trade flows. The paper uses a novel data set and finds that restrictions, particularly on...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6921 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bertho,Fabien,Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions in services : the role of policy and industrial structure (anglais)
This paper presents evidence on the determinants of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in services sectors. It develops a stylized model of mergers and acquisitions that predicts that the incidence...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6905 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barattieri, Alessandro,Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Policy barriers to international trade in services : evidence from a new database (anglais)
Surprisingly little is known about policies that affect international trade in services. Previous analyses have focused on policy commitments made by countries in international agreements but these commitments...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6109 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Guide to the services trade restrictions database (anglais)
A new Services Trade Restrictions Database collects and makes publicly available information on services trade policy assembled in a comparable manner across 103 countries, five sectors (telecommunications...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6108 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya
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East Asian FTAs in services (anglais)
Bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs) are proliferating across the globe, fundamentally altering the governance of world trade. Many of the recently concluded FTAs are comprehensive in their...
Type de document: Note d'orientation Numéro du rapport: 40175 Date du document: 1 juin 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Financial services and trade agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean : an overview (anglais)
The authors review the international framework governing trade in financial services, describe the treatment of financial services in recent trade agreements involving Latin America and Caribbean countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4181 Date du document: 1 avril 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pereira Goncalves,Marilyne,Stephanou,Constantinos
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Rules of origin in services : a case study of five ASEAN countries (anglais)
An important question in the design of bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs) covering services is to what extent nonmembers benefit from the trade preferences that are negotiated among members...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4130 Date du document: 1 février 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fink,Carsten,Nikomborirak,Deunden
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China's accession to the World Trade Organization - The services dimension (anglais)
China's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments represent the most radical services reform program negotiated in the World Trade Organization. China has promised to eliminate over the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2932 Date du document: 31 décembre 2002 Auteur: Mattoo,Aaditya
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Financial services and the World Trade Organization - liberalization commitments of the developing and transition economies (anglais)
The author analyzes the results of the financial services negotiations under the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). He shows that the negotiations have contributed...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2184 Date du document: 30 septembre 1999 Auteur: Mattoo,Aaditya
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For services, rules but few reductions in protection (anglais)
This is the third of four notes on what the Uruguay Round means for developing countries. The basic principles of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) are similar to those of the General Agreement...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 17850 Date du document: 31 mai 1996 Auteur: Martin,William J.,Winters,L. Alan
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Tentative first steps : an assessment of the Uruguay Round agreement on services (anglais)
A major result of the Uruguay Round was the creation of a General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The GATS greatly extends coverage of the multilateral trading system, establishing rules and disciplines...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1455 Date du document: 31 mai 1995 Auteur: Hoekman,Bernard M.
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Announcement of Fifteen Million US Dollars Loan to Colombia for Telecommunications on May 20, 1971 (anglais)
This press release announces on May 20, 1971, that the World Bank has approved fifteen million US dollars loan for a telecommunications project in Colombia that will contribute to meeting a rapidly growing...
Type de document: Annonce Numéro du rapport: 174293 Date du document: 19 mai 1971 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank