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Survey on Services Trade Policy 2007-2008

Survey on Services Trade Policy 2007-2008. Measures Affecting International Trade in Services (100 countries) World Bank, Development Research Group, Trade Unit 19 May 2009. Sector Coverage. Financial - banking and insurance (modes 1 & 3)

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Survey on Services Trade Policy 2007-2008

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  1. Survey on Services Trade Policy 2007-2008 Measures Affecting International Trade in Services (100 countries) World Bank, Development Research Group, Trade Unit 19 May 2009

  2. Sector Coverage Financial - banking and insurance (modes 1 & 3) Basic telecommunications – fixed and mobile (mode 3) Transportation – maritime shipping and auxiliary services, air passenger, road and rail freight (modes 1 & 3) Retail distribution (mode 3) Professional – accounting and legal (modes 1, 3 & 4)

  3. Policy dimensions Barriers to entry – licensing, ownership, legal form (mode 3), quotas (mode 4) Restrictions on operations Regulatory environment

  4. Data collection methodology Developing countries: legal firms in each country completed detailed questionnaires OECD countries: comparable information from public sources and through commissioned research Verification of findings by delegations to the WTO and World Bank country economists

  5. Preliminary quantification strategy • Wanted: Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) • Bottom-up vs top-down approach • One possibility: expert judgment • For each sector and mode, policy information was summarized • Each summary obtains a score of restrictiveness • 5 discrete scores [0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00] • Exception: air passenger transport • Aggregation by weights • Modal weights: sector-specific • Sector weights: value added-based, same sector weights across countries • Country weights: equal weights for countries within the region

  6. Overall Services trade restrictiveness index (STRI) by region Note: SAR-3, MENA-5, EAP-7, LAC-9, AFR-6, ECA-6, OECD-20, World-56 countries Source: Gootiiz, Mattoo 2009

  7. STRI by region and sectors Source: Gootiiz, Mattoo 2009

  8. Comparison of UR commitment, Doha Offers, and policies by region Note: SAR-3, MENA-5, EAP-7, LAC-9, AFR-6, ECA-5, OECD-20, World-55 countries excluding Russia Excluding air transport sector Source: Gootiiz, Mattoo 2009

  9. Comparison of UR commitment, Doha Offers, and policies by Sector Source: Gootiiz, Mattoo 2009

  10. Looking ahead • Present results in narrative and quantitative form • Form partnerships to generate updates We need: • Better understanding of relationship between modes of supply • Better understanding of regulatory discretion • Better data on market structure • Better measures of performance

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