Services
Services trade in the future
This section attempts to provide some guidance as to how services trade patterns will change. Using a novel approach this section begins by showing recent trends in trade costs related to services and identifying the factors affecting these costs. Then major future trends in technology demography income and climate change are examined with a view to explaining how these trends can affect the choice of which services countries trade and with whom they trade as well as how they trade. Finally the potential impact of these trends on trade in services is quantified using the WTO Global Trade Model.
Introduction to Part III
In Part III of this book a number of case studies on domestic regulation in services sectors are presented. These case studies concern the following sectors: legal services telecommunications information and communications technology mobile banking financial services higher education logistical services postal services and retail food distribution.