Overlooked Opportunity: Tradable Business Services, Developing Asia, and Growth
Jensen, J. Bradford | January 2013
Abstract
This paper argues that developing Asia is overlooking an opportunity for increased growth and development through trade in business services. Developing Asia would benefit from liberalizing services trade as it has benefited from liberalizing goods trade. This argument rests on these key findings: business services are important for growth, developing Asia is relatively underendowed with business services, many business services are tradable, and developing Asia has relatively high barriers to services trade.
Citation
Jensen, J. Bradford. 2013. Overlooked Opportunity: Tradable Business Services, Developing Asia, and Growth. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2086. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
1655-5252
Keywords
Regionalism
Regional Economy
Regional Trading Arrangements
Regional Trade Integration
Regional Economic Integration
Regional Cooperation
Interregional Cooperation
Trade Disputes
Trade Barriers
Economic integration
Regional Development Bank
Preferential tariffs
International negotiation
Protectionist measures
Access to markets
Economic agreements
International trade law
Regional integration
Trade relations
Regional disparities
Interregionalism
Regional economic disparities
Regional economic blocs
Industrial arbitration
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