Survey on Services Trade Policy 20072008

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Survey on Services Trade Policy 2007-2008

• Measures Affecting International Trade in
  Services
• (100 countries)
• World Bank, Development Research Group, Trade
  Unit
• 19 May 2009

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Sector Coverage

• Financial - banking and insurance (modes 1 3)
• Basic telecommunications fixed and mobile (mode
  3)
• Transportation maritime shipping and auxiliary
  services, air passenger, road and rail freight
  (modes 1 3)
• Retail distribution (mode 3)
• Professional accounting and legal (modes 1, 3
  4)

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Policy dimensions

• Barriers to entry licensing, ownership, legal
  form (mode 3), quotas (mode 4)
• Restrictions on operations
• Regulatory environment

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Data collection methodology

• Developing countries legal firms in each
  country completed detailed questionnaires
• OECD countries comparable information from
  public sources and through commissioned research
• Verification of findings by delegations to the
  WTO and World Bank country economists

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Preliminary quantification strategy

• Wanted Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
  (STRI)
• Bottom-up vs top-down approach
• One possibility expert judgment
• For each sector and mode, policy information was
  summarized
• Each summary obtains a score of restrictiveness
• 5 discrete scores 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00
• Exception air passenger transport
• Aggregation by weights
• Modal weights sector-specific
• Sector weights value added-based, same sector
  weights across countries
• Country weights equal weights for countries
  within the region

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Overall Services trade restrictiveness index
(STRI) by region
Note SAR-3, MENA-5, EAP-7, LAC-9, AFR-6, ECA-6,
OECD-20, World-56 countries
Source Gootiiz, Mattoo 2009
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STRI by region and sectors
Source Gootiiz, Mattoo 2009
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Comparison of UR commitment, Doha Offers, and
policies by region
Note SAR-3, MENA-5, EAP-7, LAC-9, AFR-6, ECA-5,
OECD-20, World-55 countries excluding Russia
Excluding air transport sector
Source Gootiiz, Mattoo 2009
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Comparison of UR commitment, Doha Offers, and
policies by Sector
Source Gootiiz, Mattoo 2009
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Looking ahead

• Present results in narrative and quantitative
  form
• Form partnerships to generate updates
• We need
• Better understanding of relationship between
  modes of supply
• Better understanding of regulatory discretion
• Better data on market structure
• Better measures of performance