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Trade in Services and Human Development : A First Look at the Links

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  • Ben Shepherd

    (Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI))

  • Gloria Pasadilla

Abstract

Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods that are necessary for human development purposes. A more efficient services sector should mean that such goods and services can be made available to poor people more cost effectively and more broadly. In line with this reasoning, we find in the data that less restrictive services trade policies are associated with better human development outcomes across a range of sectors. Appropriate services trade liberalization can therefore promote human development directly through improved outcomes, in addition to indirectly effects through the income channel.

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  • Ben Shepherd & Gloria Pasadilla, 2010. "Trade in Services and Human Development : A First Look at the Links," Trade Working Papers 23269, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Handle: RePEc:eab:tradew:23269
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    1. Mia Mikic, 2011. "Role of trade in development and overview of Asia-Pacific LDCs’ performance in trade and investment," STUDIES IN TRADE AND INVESTMENT, in: United Nations ESCAP (ed.), Trade beyond Doha: Prospects for Asia-Pacific Least Developed Countries, Studies in Trade and Investment 76, chapter 1, pages 5-24, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

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    Keywords

    Trade in servinces; Human Development; services trade liberalization;
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    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O24 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy

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