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Title: Protection and Trade in Services: A Survey

Author(s): Bernard Hoekman and Carlos Primo Braga

Publication Date: October 1997

Keyword(s): Protectionism, Trade in Services, Trade Negotiations and World Trade Organization

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: This paper surveys the literature on trade in services, focusing on the policies that are used to restrict such trade, the gains from liberalization, and the institutional mechanisms that have been adopted in the pursuit of liberalization. It argues that technological progress and international trade negotiations are likely to keep liberalization of trade in services a high profile policy issue. It also suggests that the research agenda should focus on developing better estimates of the welfare costs of protectionism in the service sector. This will require the quantification of barriers to the international exchange of services.

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Hoekman, B and Primo Braga, C. 1997. 'Protection and Trade in Services: A Survey'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1705