International trade in services

Author: Zheng Jichang
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The book is divided into eleven chapters, covering multiple aspects of services, the service industry, and service trade. It involves fields such as service economy theory, service value theory, service trade theory, the theory of foreign direct investment in the service industry, internationalization of services and multinational corporations, the human capital model of service trade, service trade policies, WTO and service trade, and more. It comprehensively and systematically constructs an analytical framework for service trade theory. At the same time, combining the current new trends in the international economy, it focuses on elaborating on hot issues such as service trade and the knowledge economy, liberalization of service trade, the service industry revolution, and service trade and international direct investment. The book also takes China's entry into the WTO as a background, proposing innovative arguments for developing the service industry and service trade in developing countries in response to the global industrial structure shift from manufacturing to services brought about by economic globalization.