Trade in Environmental Services – Lowering the Barriers, Seizing the Benefits
8 December 2021 10:00-11:30 CET | Online Roundtables,
Trade | Tags:
Environmental Services,
Green Growth,
Services Trade Major disruptions have often triggered technological revolutions and transitions to a new way of organizing production and consumption. The recovery from the Covid-19 crisis is such an opportunity for change. Technologies for a green recovery have matured over the past decade, and popular demand for
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Postponing the WTO Ministerial Conference – Making the Unexpected Breathing Space a Turning Point
Oliver Braunschweig and
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 6 December 2021
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Agricultural Trade,
Health,
Services Trade,
Trade Governance,
WTO The WTO 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), which was due to take place in Geneva from 30 November – 3 December, was postponed indefinitely last minute due to new COVID-19 travel restrictions. Despite hectic activity on a rather modest agenda during the run-up to the event,
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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
Trade,
Policy Briefs | 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
Trade,
Blog | 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
Trade,
Blog | 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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Services Trade Governance in the Digital Economy
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 26 March 2021
Trade,
Policy Briefs | Tags:
Digitalization,
Services Trade,
Trade Policy Services are at the frontier of the transformation to a digital economy. R&D as well as information and communication technology drive the transformation and make services more tradable across borders. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) governing global services trade was designed in
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Trade Policy Priorities for Financial Services
21 June 2019 | Geneva, Switzerland | By Invitation Roundtables,
Trade | Tags:
Financial Regulation,
Services Trade International financial service providers account for a key part of global services flows and have been a historic catalyst of services trade negotiations. Yet, countries today are reluctant to undertake deeper international commitments in financial services
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Firm Heterogeneity in Services Trade: Micro-Level Evidence from Eight OECD Countries
Sebastian Benz,
Dorothée Rouzet and
Francesca Spinelli | 18 April 2019
Trade,
Research Papers | Tags:
Services Trade This paper shows that smaller and less productive firms, as well as first-time exporters are overproportionally affected by services trade barriers using micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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