The Digital Transition of Services: Getting Regulation Right From the Start
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 9 March 2023
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Competition,
Digital Economy,
Innovation,
Privacy,
Services Trade The digital transition and the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in services are blurring the boundaries of both occupations and sectors. At the same time, new or rekindled trade-offs between different regulatory objectives arise, transgressing sectoral and occupational boundaries as we know them. Services regulations,
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Trade in Marine Debris Collection Services
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås and
Ronald Steenblik | 15 December 2022
Trade,
Policy Briefs | Tags:
Biodiversity Risk,
Environmental Services,
Services Trade The economic costs of marine debris to the APEC region are high. It is critical to remove restrictions on trade, investment and the temporary movement of people needed to engage in debris clean-up services. APEC Ministers have noted how environmental services are important to prevent,
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Cross-border Movement of People and Its Critical Role for Services Trade
Oliver Braunschweig and
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås | 28 February 2022
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Mode 4,
Services Trade,
WTO The importance of cross-border movement of people for services trade and the functioning of global value chains has been amply demonstrated during the COVID-19 crisis. While in normal times – and during the financial crisis in 2008 – services trade has been less volatile than
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Liberalizing Services Trade. Insights from the OECD STRI
17 February 2022 16:00-17:00 CET | Online Panel,
Trade | Tags:
Services Trade,
Trade Liberalization Global services trade regulations showed signs of liberalization in 2021, hitting a pause button on the steady rise in trade barriers witnessed in previous years. According to the recently released 2021 Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI), services liberalization outpaced new restrictions during 2021. This however
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Resilience in Services Value Chains
Sébastien Miroudot | 15 February 2022
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Global Value Chains,
Resilience,
Services Trade COVID-19 has triggered a new debate on the resilience of global value chains (GVCs) and risks associated with international production (Bonadio et al., 2020; Miroudot, 2020a). Most of this debate focuses on manufacturing and shortages of goods such as face masks or semi-conductors. This is
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