 Services
This section contains a selection of products
prepared or commissioned by ICTSD which are related to trade in services,
an overview on ICTSD services dialogues,
latest news on services,
a compilation of useful resources
on services, and links
to relevant institutions working on services.
In
the News | New
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| About ICTSD's Work on Services
IN
THE NEWS
Most recent stories from BRIDGES
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NEW
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Africa
- USA Dialogue on Services Trade, organised by ICTSD in
collaboration with
the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington DC,
USA,15-17 May 2007
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Trade
and Labour Migration: Developing Good Practices to Facilitate
Temporary Labour Mobility.Organised by ICTSD and the National
Centre for Competence in Research - Trade Regulation: Individual
Project on Services Jongny sur Vevey, Switzerland,20-22 April
2007
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Pakistan
National Meeting and Experts' Roundtable on Trade in Services
and Sustainable Development organized by ICTSD in collaboration
with the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore,
Pakistan, 17 March 2007
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Opportunities
and Risks of Liberalizing Trade in Services in Pakistan,
by Abid. A. Burki, Issue Paper No 7, December 2007
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Nicaraguan
National Meeting and Experts' Roundtable on Trade in Services
and Sustainable Development,
organized by ICTSD in collaboration
with the Nitlapan Research Institute for Development, in Managua,
Nicaragua, 26 February 2007
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Opportunities
and Risks of Liberalizing Trade in Services in Tanzania,
by DAIMA Associates, Issue Paper No 4, December 2007
- Tanzanian
National Meeting and Experts' Rountable on Trade in Services and
Sustainable Development, organised by ICTSD in collaboration
with DAIMA Associates, Dar es Salaam, 9-10 November 2006
- Opportunities
and Risks of Liberalising Trade in Services in Mozambique,
Paper - Draft, Alberto Teodoro Bila, Helder Chambal and Viriato
Tamele.
- Mozambique
National Meeting and Experts' Roundtable on Trade in Services
and Sustainable Development, organized by ICTSD in collaboration
with The Economic Justice Coalition, Maputo,
Mozambique, 6-7 November, 2006.
- Regional
Dialogue for Eastern and Southern Africa on Trade in Services
and Sustainable Development,
organized by ICTSD in collaboration with the African Economic
Research Consortium (AERC) and the Economic and Social Research
Foundation (ESRF), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
30-31 October 2006
- Roundtable
on Trade and Migration, organized by the Quakers United Nations
Office - Geneva in collaboration with ICTSD and the German Marshall
Fund, Jongy, Switzerland, 20-22 October
2006
- Workshop
on Opportunities and Risks in Liberalising Trade in Services,
organized by ICTSD, 26 June 2006.
- Roundtable
on GATS and Domestic Regulation Disciplines and Sustainable Development,
organised by ICTSD, 26 June 2006
- Least
Developed Countries (LDCs) Services Workshop: Identifying Sectors
and Modes of Supply for LDCs, Mission of Zambia in collaboration
with ICTSD and the Quakers United Nations Office, 12-14 May 2006,
Jongny, Switzerland
- Asia
Regional Dialogue on Trade in Services and Sustainable Development,
ICTSD and PIDS, 28 February - 1 March 2006, Boracay Island, Aklan
Province, The Philippines
- An
Evaluation of Domestic and Trade Policies in Building Environmental
Services Capacity in Asia: Balancing Diverse Interests and Priorities
- Draft, Aparna Sawhney, ICTSD, March 2006
- Offers on
Services submitted to the Council on Trade in Services: Slovak
Republic, Suriname,
Mauritius,
Costa Rica,
Bolivia,
Czech Republic,
China, Bahrain,
US, Canada,
Japan,
Australia,
New
Zealand, Switzerland,
EC,
Argentina,
Paraguay,
Uruguay,
Norway,
Bulgaria, Chile,
Colombia, Thailand,
Fiji, Guatemala,
Israel, Mexico,
Poland, Singapore,
Sri Lanka, Peru,
India
ABOUT
ICTSD'S WORK ON SERVICES
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ICTSD's work on trade in services and sustainable development seeks
to support selected countries in identifying their domestic sustainable
development offensive and defensive interests in services trade
and how they apply to the WTO request and offer phase. Specifically,
the project aims to:
(a) Improve understanding of linkages between possible services
liberalisation commitments undertaken in the GATS context and key
public policy objectives in selected sectors (e.g. education, health,
distribution, transport, tourism, etc…);
(b) Enhance understanding of national market structures, including
the strengths and weaknesses of the domestic services sector and
existing trade flows;
(c) Identify elements for the presentation of initial, revised or
final offers and options to respond to the specific requests submitted
to the country concerned;
(d) Facilitate interaction among Geneva-based services negotiators,
national policy makers from relevant ministries, the business community,
academia and civil society actors and involve these stakeholders
in the definition of domestic negotiating positions;
(e) Build domestic backstopping capacities for services negotiations
in selected countries by strengthening selected local think tanks,
universities and research centre and promoting their role as domestic
centres of excellence on services trade and sustainable development.
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