Restrictiveness of Services Trade Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals
Fiorini, Matteo; Hoekman, Bernard | December 2018
Abstract
The realization of many of the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs) depends on bolstering the performance of service sectors and improving access to specific services in developing countries. We show that prevailing services, trade, and investment policies affect access to services that matter for the realization of a number of SDGs: lower trade restrictiveness is an instrument that can enhance the performance of domestic services sectors. This implies that pursuit of the UN's SDGs should include a focus on facilitating trade and investment in services.
Citation
Fiorini, Matteo; Hoekman, Bernard. 2018. Restrictiveness of Services Trade Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9475.Keywords
Trade Finance
Rural Finance
Regional Development Finance
Public Financial Management
Public Finance
International Finance
Intergovernmental Finance
Financial System
Financial Flows
Financial Assets
Finance And Trade
Local Finance
International Monetary Relations
Local Finance
Banks
Capital Market
Financial statistics
Foreign trade
Municipal government
Metropolitan government
International banks and banking
Capital movements
Central banks and banking
Bills of exchange
Swaps
Banks and banking
Stock exchanges
Market
Exchange
Balance of trade
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