International trade in services

Author: Liu Qinglin
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is divided into six chapters. The first chapter explains the connotation and extension of services and service trade, providing a scientific and comprehensive definition; the second chapter analyzes domestic and international theories and models of service trade; the third chapter discusses the main content, basic principles, concession effects, main limitations, and development prospects of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS); the fourth chapter discusses the two different attitudes toward service trade—protectionism and openness—analyzing the reasons, measures, effects, and pros and cons of implementing service trade barriers and liberalization policies, and points out feasible countermeasures for countries at different stages of development; the fifth chapter introduces the service trade situations of the United States, Japan, South Korea, the European Union, and India; the sixth chapter specifically introduces the status of China's service trade, analyzes the positive and negative impacts of opening service trade after joining the World Trade Organization, points out the mode and legislative choices for developing service trade, and proposes specific countermeasures for developing service trade. This book is suitable for students of economic management majors in colleges and universities, employees in the service trade industry, and related researchers.