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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia

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  • Rupa Chanda

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Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking skill development, training, and human resource management policies that are targeted at the service sector.

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  • Rupa Chanda, 2011. "Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia," Labor Economics Working Papers 23197, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
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    1. Rubina Verma, 2008. "The Service Sector Revolution in India: A Quantitative Analysis," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2008-72, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Dilip Ratha & William Shaw, 2007. "South-South Migration and Remittances," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 6733.
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    2. Raihan, Selim, 2013. "Services Trade Liberalisation in South Asia," MPRA Paper 46077, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Anil Kumar Kanungo, 2018. "Regional Integration in Services in South Asia," International Studies, , vol. 55(2), pages 167-193, April.
    4. Sandeep Kaur & Sangeeta Khorana & Manpreet Kaur, 2020. "Is There Any Potential in Service Trade of South Asia?," Foreign Trade Review, , vol. 55(3), pages 402-417, August.
    5. Arti Grover Goswami & Sebastián Sáez, 2014. "Trade in services competitiveness: An assessment methodology," Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy (JICEP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 5(01), pages 1-31.
    6. Susara J. Jansen Van Rensburg & Riaan Rossouw & Wilma Viviers, 2020. "Liberalizing Bangladesh’s Services Trade: Is Joining Trade in Services Agreement the Way to Go?," South Asia Economic Journal, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, vol. 21(1), pages 99-121, March.

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    Keywords

    Services Trade; Trade Liberalization; trade and investment; services employment; South Asia;
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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business

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