Guide to the Services Trade Restrictions Database
By I. Borchert, Batshur Gootiiz, Aaditya Mattoo. 2012
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A new Services Trade Restrictions Database collects and makes publicly available information on services trade policy assembled in a comparable manner across 103 countries, five sectors (telecommunications, finance, transportation, retail and professional services) and the key modes of service supply. It contains richly textured policy information as well as a preliminary quantification of policy measures. This paper is a guide to the database, and provides a description of the data, how it was collected, how policy information was quantified, and how the data are presented in the publicly available, interactive Web database. The database is best seen as a first response to the strong demand for better information from policy-makers, negotiators, researchers and the private sector. Even in its present version, the database can play an important role in advancing policy reform by facilitating the analysis of services policies, informing international negotiations by providing data on actual policies, and provoking dialogue and refinements by making information on policies publicly available. Through feedback from various interested parties, the database may evolve into a collectively created public good.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Law, Media Technology
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- Services productivity, trade policy and manufacturing exports (2017, unknown): “The only one that requires elaboration is our measure of services trade restrictiveness: the World Bank’s Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (Borchert et al., 2012; and Borchert et al., 2014).”
- Services trade policy and manufacturing productivity: The role of institutions (2017, methodology): “…and professional services; and temporary195 cross-border movement of service-supplying individuals (mode 4), for professional services only (see Borchert et al., 2012, for a detailed description of the database).17 We derive the preferred versions of the CSTRI variables using alternatively the…”