Digital Trade: Top Trade Negotiation Priorities for Cross-Border Data Flows and Online Trade in Services
Jane Drake-Brockman,
Gabriel Gari,
Stuart Harbinson,
Bernard Hoekman,
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås and
Sherry Stephenson | 16 September 2021
Policy Briefs,
Trade | Tags:
Digitalization,
Services Trade,
WTO This policy brief sets out recommendations to achieve a new multilateral framework of trade rules in the digital arena, thereby facilitating continued digital transformation of services and growth in cross-border flows of data. The present moment is critical. Successful conclusion of World Trade Organization (WTO)
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Services Trade and the Gender Wage Gap: The Case of India
Louise Johannesson and
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 31 May 2021
Blog,
Trade | Tags:
India,
Inequality,
Services Trade,
Wage Gap India’s female labour force participation rate is less than half of the global average and the gender wage gap is substantial. With higher tertiary graduation rates and excelling in frontier skills for the future, women constitute a talent pool that India can ill afford to
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Globalization and Digitalization – Interconnections Between Taxation, Trade and Investment
3, 10, 17, 24 June and 1 July, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online Fiscal,
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Digitalization,
Investment,
Services Trade,
Tax Expenditures,
Taxes Recent decades have witnessed structural changes in the way production is organized. Trade and investment liberalization together with technological developments, notably in transport and communications, have substantially reduced trade and foreign investment costs and enabled global value chains, supported by global finance, to proliferate. As
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Digital Taxes and Trade in Services
10 June, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Digital Tax,
Services Trade International income tax rules rest on the principles that taxes are paid in the jurisdiction where the company has physical presence, taxes are based on profits, and there are profit allocation rules. These tax rules need to be updated as economic activities go digital –
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Trade in Environmental Services: The Quiet Revolution
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås and
Ronald Steenblik | 29 March 2021
Blog,
Trade | Tags:
Environment,
Services Trade,
Sustainable Development A significant number of WTO members have taken steps to revive the discussions on the role that traded environmental goods and services could play in a green recovery. This is encouraging. While technology offers significant opportunities for a green recovery, more needs to be done
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