Over 1 billion people currently live in slums, with the number of slum dwellers only expected
to grow in the coming decades. The vast majority of slums are located in and around urban …

A substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services since the mid-1980s.
Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing …

内容提要: 本文利用跨国横截面数据, 计量检验了政府规模, 法治水平与一国服务业比重之间的
关系. 我们发现, 以一国法治水平来衡量的契约维护制度的质量, 与其服务业比重显著正相关; …

This paper investigates how countries become specialised in exporting specific producer
services, particularly financial, communication and business services. We find that a …

A striking feature of India's growth performance over the past decade has been the strength
of the services sector. Table 10.1 shows that on average services grew more slowly than …

Working with a mix of panel data on goods and services trade for the OECD for 1994–2004,
combined with social accounts data (ie data on intermediate linkages) for 78 countries …

" Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood.
The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse …

Although many studies have investigated the role of customer orientation and learning
orientation on a firm's performance in small, medium, and large enterprises, the literature …

This paper surveys the literature on trade in services, focusing on the policies that are used
to restrict such trade, the gains from liberalization, and the institutional mechanisms that …

The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-
cost and high-quality producer services-telecommunications, transport and distribution …