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Liberalising Air Cargo Services in APEC
This study aims at assessing the link between a more liberal air cargo regime and increased bilateral merchandise trade in the Asia Pacific...
Leveraging Trade in Services to Consolidate Global Economic Recovery: An Agenda for the G-20
The time is ripe for G-20 policymakers to take strong and decisive action to reduce the costs of providing services abroad, because: 1. The costs...
Circular Labour Migration and Offshoring of IT Services: What can be Done to Remove Unnecessary Trade Barriers?
India has since the early 1990s moved from being an inward-looking economy with import-substitution policies to become one of the world’s leading...
Origins of the Financial Crisis and Requirements for Reform
This paper examines the causes of the global financial crisis (focusing in particular on why residential mortgage-backed securities and credit...
Has the EU’s Single Market Program led to Deeper Integration of EU Services Markets?
This paper empirically evaluates whether the EU’s Single Market Program has led to deeper integration of EU services markets. It adopts a...
Assessing International Trade in Healthcare Services
Many stories and anecdotal evidence document doctors and patients travelling across the globe to give and receive medical and cosmetic surgeries,...