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WPS4461 d e z i r o h t u A e r Policy ReseaRch WoRking Pa PeR 4461 u s o l c s i D c i l b u P d e z i r o h t u A e r u Services Trade and Growth s o l c s i D c Bernard Hoekman i l b u Aaditya Mattoo P d e z i r o h t u A e r u s o l c s i D c i l b u P d e z i r o h t u A e r u s o l c s i D c i l b The World Bank u P Development Research Group Trade Team January 2008 Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR 4461 Abstract The competitiveness of firms in open economies is firm. We explore what recent empirical work suggests increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high- could be done to enhance comparative advantage in the quality producer services – telecommunications, transport production and export of services and how to design and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. policy reforms to open services markets to greater foreign This paper discusses the role of services in economic participation in a way that ensures not just greater growth, focusing in particular on channels through which efficiency but also greater equity in terms of access to openness to trade in services may increase productivity at services. the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the This paper—a product of the Trade Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the department to analyze the links between trade in services and ec