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原文传递 Landlocked or Policy Locked? How Services Trade Protection Deepens Economic Isolation

题名：	Landlocked or Policy Locked? How Services Trade Protection Deepens Economic Isolation
责任者：	Borchert, Ingo<=>Gootiiz, Batshur<=>Grover, Arti<=>Mattoo, Aaditya
关键词：	Transport
学科分类：	交通运输规划与管理
摘要：	A new cross-country database on services policy reveals a perverse pattern: many landlocked countries restrict trade in the very services that connect them with the rest of the world. On average, telecommunications and air-transport policies are significantly more restrictive in landlocked countries than elsewhere. The phenomenon is most starkly visible in Sub-Saharan Africa and is associated with lower levels of political accountability. This paper finds evidence that these policies lead to more concentrated market structures and more limited access to services than these countries would otherwise have, even after taking into account the influence of geography and incomes, and the possibility that policy is endogenous. Even moderate liberalization in these sectors could lead to an increase of cellular subscriptions by 7 percentage points and a 20-percent increase in the number of flights. Policies in other countries, industrial and developing alike, also limit competition in international transport services. Hence, "trade-facilitating" investments under various "aid-for-trade" initiatives are likely to earn a low return unless they are accompanied by meaningful reform in these services sectors.
出版机构：	World Bank
报告类型：	咨询报告
详细地址：	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20120110105432
资源类型：	科技（咨询、行业）报告
初始创建时间：	2012-01-01
最新修改时间：	2017-12-13T12:58:54Z