Services
Agradecimientos y Descargo de responsabilidad
El Informe sobre el Comercio Mundial 2016 ha sido elaborado bajo la responsabilidad general de Xiaozhun Yi Director General Adjunto de la OMC y Robert Koopman Director de la División de Estudios Económicos y Estadística. El informe de este año ha sido coordinado por Marc Bacchetta y Cosimo Beverelli. Los autores del informe son Marc Auboin Marc Bacchetta Cosimo Beverelli Barbara D’Andrea Christophe Degain Alexander Keck Andreas Maurer José- Antonio Monteiro Coleman Nee Roberta Piermartini y Robert Teh (División de Estudios Económicos y Estadística); Antonia Carzaniga Joscelyn Magdeleine Juan Marchetti Lee Tuthill y Ruosi Zhang (División de Comercio de Servicios e Inversión).
What role for international cooperation on services trade policy?
Trade in services continues to evolve. Technology and regulatory reforms are driving a fundamental transformation creating new demand while simultaneously helping to reduce trade costs and opening further opportunities to trade services. Under the impetus of global value chains demographic trends rising per capita incomes in emerging markets and environmental concerns demand for foreign-supplied services is on the rise. The evolving avenues actors and composition of services trade increase its potential to contribute to inclusive economic growth and development but also present a number of challenges that need to be addressed to fulfil this potential.