Uncovering Developing Countries’ Performance in Trade in Services

Sebastian Saez () and Arti Grover
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World Bank - Economic Premise, 2010, issue 39, 1-5

Abstract: Services play a broad and strategic role in the economy. Trade in services has been expanding rapidly because technological improvements have reduced the cost of cross-border exchange from infinity to virtually zero, thereby allowing for new export activities. Trade in services, particularly business services, has become an element of export diversification for many developing countries. Besides traditional activities such as tourism, activities such as health and information and communication services are among the most successful services exports. This note focuses on the determinants of trade in services for developing countries.

Keywords: developing countries; trade; services; exports; imports; business services; export diversification; tourism; health; information; communications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F4 F41 F43 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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