International trade in services in India: implications for growth and inequality in a globalizing world

Discussing the theoretical and empirical basis of flourishing world trade inservices, this book analyses its composition and sectoral prospects for India. Highlighting the implications of rising services trade for pro-poor growth, it delineates why removal of barriers to trade in services may be welfare enhancing. India's services trade has grown at a very fast pace and now contributes more than one-third of the export revenue. India has also succeeded in raising its penetration in global markets more rapidly for services than for goods. Discussing the theoretical and empirical basis of the flourishing world trade in services, this book analyses the factors responsible for the rapid rise in services trade in India, its composition, and sectoral strengths and weaknesses. Being invisible, services trade faces many complicated barriers and challenges. Highlighting the implications of rising services trade for pro-poor growth, this book delineates why removal of barriers to trade in services may be welfare enhancing in terms of its efficiency in reducing poverty as well as inequality. Taking the case of higher education, heath, and transportation services, it identifies the existing barriers and suggests selective liberalization. INDICE: List of Tables, Figures, Boxes, and Appendices Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Underpinnings of Services Trade 3. Emerging Patterns of Services Trade of Developing Countries 4. Services Trade in India: Profile and Competitiveness 5. Measuring the Barriers to Trade in Services6. Impact of Barriers on Services Trade 7. Trade in Higher Education Servicesin India and Abroad 8. Trade in Health Services in India 9. Trade in Transportation Services: Competition and Efficiency 10. Services Trade and Pro-poor Growth in India 11. Making Trade in Services Work for the Poor: Emerging Challenges and Policy Options 12. Conclusions Reference Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-807937-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 08/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés