Opportunities and Risks of Liberalizing Trade in Services: The Case of Guatemala
23rd May 2007
The National Meeting, organized by ICTSD in collaboration with the Centro de Investigaciones Economicas (CIEN), is intended to provide a forum where the findings of a Guatemalan case study commissioned by ICTSD will be presented. The case study, which focuses on Guatemala’s interests in Back Office Operations (BPOs), such as data entry and handling, data processing and database services, financial processing (financial information and data processing/handling) and payments services, as well as health and health-related services activities that are supplied cross-border through communication technology, such as medical transcription and telemedicine, seeks to analyse the relevance of the services sector in advancing the sustainable development goals of Guatemala, the opportunities and risks appurtenant to liberalising trade in selected services sectors or modes of supply and possible options regarding the corollary regulatory reform and other flanking measures that may be needed to achieve these goals.
Participants
AGEXPORT
Ana Guillén
Mariangel Ruiz
Zsott Gerendas
SUPERINTENDENCIA DE BANCOS
René Ramírez
INSTITUTO GUATEMALTECO DE TURISMO -INGUAT-
Carlos Haase
José Miguel Gaitán
MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA
Ingrid Barillas
Sigfrido Lee
Ana Clarissa Villacorta
Ruben Morales
MINISTERIO DE TRABAJO
Roberto Cordero
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ECONÓMICAS NACIONALES -CIEN-
Jorge Lavarreda
Walter Menchú
Mario Cuevas
Lisardo Bolaños
Jaime Díaz
Wendy Aguilar
SUPERINTENDENCIA DE ADMINISTRACIÓN TRIBUTARIA -SAT-
Milton Villagrán
MINISTERIO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES -MINEX-
Marco Córdova
SUPERINTENDENCIA DE TELECOMUNICACIONES
Ricardo Flores
CENCIT
Julio René Aguilar
COLEGIO DE FARMACEÚTICOS Y QUÍMICOS DE GUATEMALA
Martha Tanchez
SOFEX
Francisco Sandoval
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ELEGATES
Johannes Bernabe