TY - BOOK AU - Hoekman,Bernard AU - Hoekman,Bernard TI - Liberalizing Trade In Services: A Survey PY - 2006/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - The World Bank KW - Banks and Banking Reform KW - Commodities KW - Competitiveness KW - Development KW - Development Assistance KW - Distribution KW - Economic Growth KW - Economic Theory and Research KW - Emerging Markets KW - Free Trade KW - GDP KW - ICT Policy and Strategies KW - Incentives KW - Income KW - Information and Communication Technologies KW - Inputs KW - International Economics & Trade KW - International Trade KW - Investment KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - National Income KW - Open Economies KW - Per Capita Incomes KW - Political Economy KW - Private Sector Development KW - Production KW - Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures KW - Public Sector Development KW - Telecommunications KW - Trade KW - Trade and Services KW - Trade Policy KW - Transport KW - Transport Economics, Policy and Planning KW - Welfare KW - WTO N2 - Since the mid 1980s a substantial amount of research has been undertaken on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the World Trade Organization or regional trade agreements, especially the European Union, but an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of services sector liberalization. This paper surveys the literature, focusing on contributions that investigate the determinants of international trade and investment in services, the potential gains from greater trade (and liberalization), and efforts to cooperate to achieve such liberalization through trade agreements. It concludes that there is increasing evidence that services liberalization is an important source of potential welfare gains, but relatively little research has been done that can inform the design of international cooperation-both trade agreements and development assistance-so as to more effectively promote development objectives UR - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-4030 ER -