Services Trade and Development: The Experience of Zambia Contributor(s): Uk, Palgrave MacMillan (Author), Mattoo, Aaditya (Editor), Payton, Lucy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0821368494 ISBN-13: 9780821368497 Publisher: World Bank Publications OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: Services are critical to Zambia's overall economic performance and the well-being of its people, and the constraints on service sector development due to small markets and limited endowments could be alleviated by greater regional and global integration. A key rationale for this volume was to ensure that policy makers and trade negotiators in a less developed country like Zambia are fully informed about both the opportunities for expanding trade in services--unilaterally, regionally, multilaterally--and the domestic pre-conditions for successful services liberalization. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Business Development - Business & Economics | Industries - General |
Dewey: 338.409 |
LCCN: 2007000445 |
Series: Trade and Development |
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.06" W x 8.94" (1.03 lbs) 310 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Some see trade in services as irrelevant to the development agenda for least developed countries (LDCs). Others see few benefits from past market openings by LDCs. This book debunks both views. It finds that serious imperfections in Zambia's reform of services trade deprived the country of significant benefits and diminished faith in liberalization. What is to be done? Move aggressively and consistently to eliminate barriers to entry and competition. Develop and enforce regulations to deal with market failures. And implement proactive policies to widen the access of firms, farms, and consumers to services of all kinds. These lessons from Zambia are applicable to all LDCs. In all this, international agreements can help. But to succeed, LDCs mustcommit to open markets and their trading partners must provide assistance for complementary reforms. Zambia, which leads the LDC group at the World Trade Organization, can show the way. |