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A Brookings Institution Press and the Organization of American States publicationThe services sectorincluding financial services, telecommunications, transportation, tourism, and professional serviceshas become critical to the continued economic dynamism in the Americas. And the quality and competitiveness of this sector are essential to economic growth and development. On average, servicesincreasingly traded in more numerous and far-reaching ways than goodsaccount for nearly two-thirds of the gross domestic product of the Western Hemisphere. The importance of the sector, however, is disproportionately large in Central America and the Caribbean, where it often is the major source of employment and of foreign exchange.This timely volume is the first to review and analyze trade agreements covering the services sector in the Western Hemisphere and their relationship to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), in force since 1995 as an integral part of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Negotiations on liberalizing services trade are continuing at the multilateral, the regional or hemispheric, and the subregional levels. It is imperative to understand what is being discu

Author

Sherry M.Stephenson Editor

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States: Brookings Institution Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815721024

Subjects

Political Science, Western, Travel