Services Trade in the Balkans
This study aims at providing an overview of policies affecting services trade in seven countries of the Balkan region, and stresses the growing importance of services trade. The service sectors, particularly tourism and transport, play an important...
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| Format: | Publication |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/01/2091872/services-trade-balkans http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15217 |
| Summary: | This study aims at providing an overview
of policies affecting services trade in seven countries of
the Balkan region, and stresses the growing importance of
services trade. The service sectors, particularly tourism
and transport, play an important role in the economies of
the Balkan countries. The paper finds that, on average, the
countries involved, are committed to a liberal trade regime
for services, and that they have made more commitments to
liberalize services in the World Trade Organization (WTO)
than developing countries at comparable levels of
development. For the future, the paper encourages further
liberalization at the regional level, on a Most Favoured
Nation (MFN) basis, as well as policy harmonization with the
European Union. |
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