Tokatlidis E, Shanta Devarajan, Josh Felman, Enric Fern, Poonam Gupta, Devesh Kapur, ...
India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fastgrowing Asian economies. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing has been widely...
Bretton Woods Ii, Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian, World Bank, Washington Dc, Arvind Subramanian
opportunity for India to help shape the new global economic architecture in line with its strategic interests. India should propose short-term crisis response actions and suggest a clear medium-term...
Multilateralism Beyond Doha, Aaditya Mattoo, Gary Hufbauer, Rahul Khullar, Patrick Low, Richard Newfarmer, ...
Arvind Subramanian A fundamental shift is taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to adapt. The Doha process focused on issues of limited significance...
Foreign Professionals in the United States: Regulatory Impediments to Trade (2009)
Mattoo, Aaditya, Mishra, Deepak
Changes in demographics and patterns of investment in human capital are creating increased scope for international trade in professional services. India, one of the largest exporters of skilled...
Trade Policies for Electronic Commerce (2008)
Aaditya Mattoo, Ludger Schuknecht, Bernard Hoekman, Pierre Latrille, Patrick Low, Hamid Mamdouh, ...
Abstract: WTO members have decided provisionally to exempt electronic delivery of products from customs duties. There is growing support for the decision to be made permanent. Is this desirable? Some...
Services Inputs and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Firm-Level Data (2008)
Arnold, Jens Matthias, Mattoo, Aaditya, Narciso, Gaia
This paper investigates the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to services inputs. We use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for over 1,000...
Tariffs, Enforcement, and Customs Evasion: Evidence from India (2008)
Prachi Mishra, International Monetary Fund, Beata Javorcik, Charles Kramer, Nuno Limao, Aaditya Mattoo, ...
This paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics. We examine the effect of tariff policies on evasion of customs duties, in the context of the trade reform in India of the 1990s. By...
Aaditya Mattoo, Ludger Schuknecht
exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the...
Assessing the Impact of Communication Costs on International Trade (2007)
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu, Mary Amiti, Caroline Freund
Abstract: Communication costs are frequently cited as an important determinant of trade costs, but without any supporting empirical evidence. We test this relationship by incorporating alternative...
Elena Ianchovichina, Aaditya Mattoo, Marcelo Olarreaga, Will Martin, Francis Ng, Arvind Subramanian, ...
Initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries have recently been
Trade in International Maritime Services: How Much Does Policy Matter? (2007)
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu, Simon Evenett, Bernard Hoekman, Pierre Latrille, ...
Abstract: Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. This paper examines why these costs are so high in some countries, and quantifies the importance of two explanations:...
SHAPING FUTURE GATS RULES FOR TRADE IN SERVICES (2007)
Abstract: The GATS is justifiably credited with having created a more secure environment for trade in services. But even though it has put in place a useful framework to deal with explicit...
Hoekman, Bernard, Mattoo, Aaditya, Sapir, André
Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO on expanding and deepening the coverage of services liberalization commitments. This paper identifies and discusses five hypotheses that...
Aaditya Mattoo, Sacha Wunsch, Or Jara, Deepak Mishra, Julia Nielson, Anirudh Shingal, ...
Cross-border trade in services is growing rapidly, with both developed and developing countries among the most dynamic exporters. Despite the substantial global benefits from such trade, the...
China's Accession to the WTO: The Services Dimension (2003)
China's GATS commitments represent the most radical services reform program negotiated in the WTO. China has promised to eliminate over the next few years most restrictions on foreign entry and...
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Eep Rathindran
This paper analyzes the impact of policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral performance using a new panel data set for 86 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin...
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Eep Rathindran
Abstract: The liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in Asian countries is examined in this paper with a view to identify the elements of good policy and examine how it can be promoted...
Abstract: Every major regional trade agreement now has a services dimension. Is trade in services so different that we need to modify the conclusions on preferential agreements reached so far in the...
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Eep Rathindran
This paper analyzes the impact of policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral performance using a new panel data set for 86 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin...
Aaditya Mattoo, Devesh Roy, Arvind Subramanian
This paper describes the United States recently enacted Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports. The AGOA expands the scope of preferential...
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Randeep Rathindran
Fink, Mattoo, and Rathindran analyze the effect of The authors find that both privatization and policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral competition lead to significant improvements in...
Aaditya Mattoo, Devesh Roy, Arvind Subramanian
This paper describes the recently enacted Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports. AGOA expands the scope of preferential access of...
Unrestricted Market Access for Sub-Saharan Africa: How Much Is It Worth and Who Pays? (2001)
Ianchovichina, Elena, Mattoo, Aaditya, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries have recently been announced by the EU, Japan and the USA. This paper assesses the impact of these initiatives and others that might be...
Multilateral Disciplines for Investment-Related Policies? (1999)
Bernard Hoekman, Kamal Saggi, Will Martin, Aaditya Mattoo, Marcelo Olarreaga, Arvind Panagariya, ...
This paper asks whether there is a strong case for developing countries to support the creation of a multilateral agreement on investment. We identify a number of potential gains from cooperation:
Commercial Policy Uncertainty, the Expected (1998)
Joseph F. Francois, Will Martin, Anne Krueger, Aaditya Mattoo, Doug Nelson, Hdkan Nordström, ...
(Revised) Abstract: Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines like OECD industrial tariff bindings negotiated under GATT since 1947 and new...
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, Angelo Gurgel, Jel F, David Tarr, ...
The authors would like to thank the seminar participants at IPEA in Brasilia and BNDES in Rio de Janeiro, numerous agencies of the government of Brazil and Brazilian institutes and scholars
Imperfectly competitive markets and state policy. (1990)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 1990.
Moving people to deliver services : how can the WTO help?
Chaudhuri, Sumanta, Mattoo, Aaditya, Self, Richard
The previous General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) negotiations produced little liberalization of the movement of individual service providers (mode 4), and the potentially large global gains...
Pre-Empting Protectionism in Services: The GATS and Outsourcing
Aaditya Mattoo, Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
Cross-border trade in services is growing rapidly, with both developed and developing countries among the most dynamic exporters. Despite the substantial global benefits from such trade, the...
Trade in international maritime services : how much does policy matter?
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Neagu, Ileana Cristina
Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. The authors examine why these costs are so high in some countries, and, quantify the importance of two explanations: restrictive...
Pre-empting protectionism in services - the WTO and outsourcing
Mattoo, Aaditya, Wunsch, Sacha
Cross-border trade in services is growing rapidly, with both industrial and developing countries among the most dynamic exporters. Despite the substantial global benefits from such trade, the...
Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the U.S. labor market
Mattoo, Aaditya, Neagu, Ileana Cristina, Ozden, Caglar
The authors investigate the occupational placement of immigrants in the U.S. labor market using census data. They find striking differences among highly educated immigrants from different countries,...
Reciprocity across modes of supply in the World Trade Organization : a negotiating formula
Mattoo, Aaditya, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Negotiations on trade in services at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels countries have undertaken unilaterally. One reason: limited...
China's accession to the World Trade Organization - The services dimension
China's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments represent the most radical services reform program negotiated in the World Trade Organization. China has promised to eliminate over...
Services, Economic Development and the Doha Round: Exploiting the Comparative Advantage of the WTO
Hoekman, Bernard, Mattoo, Aaditya
This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the WTO. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the...
An assessment of telecommunications reform in developing countries
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
The authors analyze the effect of policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral performance using a new panel data set for 86 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and...
The author analyzes the results of the financial services negotiations under the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). He shows that the negotiations have...
Regionalism in standards - good or bad for trade?
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang, Mattoo, Aaditya
Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and unconditionally blessed by multilateral trade rules. The authors find, theoretically and empirically, that such agreements...
Trade polices for electronic commerce
Mattoo, Aaditya, Schuknecht, Ludger
Some countries in the World Trade Organization initially opposed WTO's decision to exempt electronic delivery of products from customs duties, out of concern for the revenue consequences. Others...
Mode of foreign entry, technology transfer, and foreign direct investment policy
Mattoo, Aaditya, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Saggi, Kamal
Foreign direct investment can take place through the direct entry of foreign firms or the acquisition of existing domestic firms. Mattoo, Olarreaga, and Saggi examine the preferences of a foreign...
Do institutions matter more for services ?
Amin, Mohammad, Mattoo, Aaditya
Recent empirical research has focused on the role ofinstitutions in overall economic performance. This paper examines the impact of institutions on the relative performance of the service sector....
Does Services Liberalization Benefit Manufacturing Firms?
Arnold, Jens, Mattoo, Aaditya, Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata
While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services liberalization have not been empirically established. This study examines the link...
Services inputs and firm productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from firm-level data
Arnold, Jens Matthias, Mattoo, Aaditya, Narciso, Gaia
The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to services inputs. They use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for over...
Services in a development round : three goals and three proposals
The benefits of services trade reform are huge but services negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) are making little progress. A proximate cause is the current negotiating process, based...
Migration from Zambia : ensuring temporariness through cooperation
Amin, Mohammad, Mattoo, Aaditya
The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support development in the least developed countries. Overall emigration from Zambia is not high by regional...
Hoekman, Bernard, Mattoo, Aaditya, Sapir, André
Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO in expanding and deepening the coverage of services liberalization commitments. This paper identifies and discusses five hypotheses that...
Can no antitrust policy be better than some antitrust policy?
The author examines how the market structure is likely to evolve where there is multistage oligopolistic production - and what the implications of this are for antitrust policy. The author treats the...
Should credit be given for autonomous liberalization in multilateral trade negotiations?
Mattoo, Aaditya, Olarreaga, Marcelo
As each new round of multilateral trade negotiations approaches, there is a demand for a negotiating rule that would give credit for autonomous (unilateral) liberalization. The authors show that the...
India and the multilateral trading system after Seattle - toward a proactive role
Mattoo, Aaditya, Subramanian, Arvind
The authors argue that India should engage more actively in the multilateral trading system for four reasons: First, such engagement could facilitate domestic reform, and improve access to export...
Unrestricted market access for Sub-Saharan Africa - How much is it worth and who pays?
Ianchovichina, Elena, Mattoo, Aaditya, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The European Union (EU), Japan, and the United States (US) have recently announced initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries. The authors assess the impact on Sub-Saharan Africa...
Shaping future GATS rules for trade in services
The new round of negotiations has begun with a mechanical sense of"since we said we would, therefore we must,"says the author. To make the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) more effective...
Measuring services trade liberalization and its impact on economic growth : an illustration
Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep, Subramanian, Arvind
The authors explain how the output growth effect from liberalizing the service sectors differs from the effect from liberalizing trade in goods. They also suggest using a policy-based rather than...
Liberalizing basic telecommunications : the Asian experience
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
The authors examine the liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in Asian countries with a view to identifying good policy and determining how multilateral negotiations can promote it....
Regional agreements and trade services - policy issues
Mattoo, Aaditya, Fink, Carsten
Every major regional trade agreement now has a services dimension. Is trade in services so different that there is need to modify the conclusions on preferential agreements pertaining to goods...
The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its rules of origin : generosity undermined?
Mattoo, Aaditya, Roy, Devesh, Subramanian, Arvind
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), signed into American law on May 18, 2000, is a major plank of U.S. initiatives toward the African continent. The Act aims broadly at improving economic...
Assessing the impact of communication costs on international trade
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Neagu, Ileana Cristina
Recent research suggests that trade costs influence the pattern of specialization and trade, but there is limited empirical research on the determinants of trade costs. The existing literature...
Explaining liberalization commitments in financial services trade
Harms, Philipp, Mattoo, Aaditya, Schuknecht, Ludger
The authors examine the determinants of market access commitments in international financial services trade in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Based on a theoretical model, they...
Does temporary migration have to be permanent?
Amin, Mohammad, Mattoo, Aaditya
The choice between temporary and permanent migration is today central to the design of migration policies. The authors draw a distinction between the two types of migration on the basis of the...
The contribution of skilled immigration and international graduate students to U.S. innovation
Chellaraj, Gnanaraj, Maskus, Keith E., Mattoo, Aaditya
The impact of international students and skilled immigration in the United States on innovative activity is estimated using a model of idea generation. In the main specification a system of three...
Does health insurance impede trade inhealth care services?
Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
There is limited trade in health services despite big differences in the price of health care across countries. Whether patients travel abroad for health care depends on the coverage of treatments by...
Can guest worker schemes reduce illegal migration ?
Amin, Mohammad, Mattoo, Aaditya
The authors analyze recent efforts at international cooperation to limit illegal migration, particularly through the use of legal migration avenues like guest worker schemes. They show that while...
Does services liberalization benefit manufacturing firms ? Evidence from the Czech Republic
Arnold, Jens, Javorcik, Beata S., Mattoo, Aaditya
While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services liberalization have not been empirically established. Using firm-level data from...
The WTO and the poorest countries: the stark reality
MATTOO, AADITYA, SUBRAMANIAN, ARVIND
Small and poor countries pose a challenge for the World Trade Organization (WTO). These countries have acquired a significant say in WTO decision-making. However, they have limited ability to engage...
MATTOO, AADITYA, SUBRAMANIAN, ARVIND
We are grateful to the commentators for their valuable observations. We cannot do justice to the full range of comments we have received. Below we respond briefly to some of the issues raised.
Hoekman, Bernard, Mattoo, Aaditya
The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial...
Regulatory cooperation, aid for trade and the general agreement on trade in services
Hoekman, Bernard, Mattoo, Aaditya
This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access...
REGULATORY COOPERATION, AID FOR TRADE AND THE GATS
Bernard Hoekman, Aaditya Mattoo
This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the WTO. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the...
Electronic Commerce, Trade and Tariff Revenue: A Quantitative Assessment
Aaditya Mattoo, Rosa Perez-Esteve, Ludger Schuknecht
This paper assesses the quantitative importance of electronic commerce in trade and tariff revenue, in light of the WTO decision on 'duty-free cyberspace'. Electronic commerce is likely to boost...
Eco-labelling: Policy Considerations.
Mattoo, Aaditya, Singh, Harsha V
This paper argues that eco-labeling could lead to an adverse effect on the environment. In every society there are some consumers who are concerned about environmental problems and others who are...
Reciprocity Across Modes of Supply in the WTO: A Negotiating Formula
Mattoo, Aaditya, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The negotiations on trade in services at the WTO have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels unilaterally undertaken by countries. One reason is the neglect of the traditional...
Unrestricted Market Access for Sub-Saharan Africa: How Much is it Worth and Who Pays?
Ianchovichina, Elena, Mattoo, Aaditya, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries have recently been announced by the European Union, Japan and the United States. This Paper assesses the impact on Sub-Saharan Africa...
Should Credit be Given for Autonomous Liberalization in Multilateral Trade Negotiations?
Mattoo, Aaditya, Olarreaga, Marcelo
As each new round of multilateral trade negotiations approaches, there is a demand for a negotiating rule that would give credit for autonomous liberalization. This Paper shows that the desirability...
Mode of Foreign Entry, Technology Transfer, and FDI Policy
Mattoo, Aaditya, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Saggi, Kamal
Foreign direct investment (FDI) can take place either through the direct entry of foreign firms or the acquisition of existing domestic firms. The preferences of a foreign firm and the host country...
Trade in International Maritime Services: How Much Does Policy Matter?
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu
Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. This article examines why these costs are so high in some countries and quantifies the importance of two explanations: restrictive...
The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and Its Rules of Origin: Generosity Undermined?
Devesh Roy, Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
This paper describes the United States recently enacted Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports. The AGOA expands the scope of preferential...
What Would a Development-Friendly WTO Architecture Really Look Like?
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
This paper elaborates on a number of key principles that need to underpin a coherent and development-friendly architecture for the WTO. The key principles include enlarging the scope of WTO...
The WTO and the Poorest Countries: The Stark Reality
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
Small and poor countries pose a challenge for the World Trade Organization (WTO). These countries have acquired a significant say in WTO decision-making. However, they have limited ability to engage...
Explaining liberalization commitments in financial services trade
Philipp Harms, Aaditya Mattoo, Ludger Schuknecht
Financial services, financial sector liberalization, GATS, endogenous protection, trade in services,
China's Accession to the WTO: The Services Dimension
China's GATS commitments represent the most radical services reform program negotiated in the WTO. China has promised to eliminate over the next few years most restrictions on foreign entry and...
Human capital and the changing structure of the Indian economy
Amin, Mohammad, Mattoo, Aaditya
Using panel data for the fourteen major states of India over the 1980-2000 period, the authors estimate the effect of human capital endowment on the performance of the state economies. They find that...
Currency undervaluation and sovereign wealth funds : a new role for the World Trade Organization
Mattoo, Aaditya, Subramanian, Arvind
Two aspects of global imbalances - undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds - require a multilateral response. For reasons of inadequate leverage and eroding legitimacy, the...
The Doha development agenda : what's on the table?
The outlines of a potential agreement, emerging after seven years of negotiations, imply that Doha offers three key benefits: reduced uncertainty of market access in goods and services; improved...
Mattoo, Aaditya, Subramanian, Arvind
There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to adapt. The Doha process focused on issues of limited significance while the...
The Contribution of International Graduate Students to US Innovation
Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Keith E. Maskus, Aaditya Mattoo
The impact of international students in the United States on innovative activity is estimated using a model of idea generation. Results indicate that the presence of foreign graduate students has a...
Regionalism in standards: good or bad for trade?
Maggie Xiaoyang Chen, Aaditya Mattoo
Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and blessed by multilateral trade rules. Using a constructed panel data that identifies the different types of agreements at...
Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New Role for the World Trade Organization
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
Two aspects of global imbalances--undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs--require a multilateral response. For reasons of inadequate leverage and eroding legitimacy, the...
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
A fundamental shift is taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to adapt. The Doha process focused on issues of limited significance while the burning...
Arvind Subramanian, Aaditya Mattoo
There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to adapt. The Doha process focused on issues of limited significance while the...
Liberalizing Basic Telecommunications: The Asian Experience
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
The liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in Asian countries is examined in this paper with a view to identify the elements of good policy and examine how it can be promoted through...
FOREIGN PROFESSIONALS AND DOMESTIC REGULATION
Mattoo, Aaditya, Mishra, Deepak
Changes in demographics and patterns of investment in human capital are creating increased scope for international trade in professional services. The scope for mutually beneficial trade is, however,...
Services, economic development and the next round of negotiations on services
Bernard Hoekman, Aaditya Mattoo
World trade in services amounted to $2170 billion in 1997, of which 40 per cent was cross-border consumption. Though service trade liberalization is hard to model, sectoral and general equilibrium...
Trade in International Maritime Services: How Much Does Policy Matter?
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu
Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. This article examines why these costs are so high in some countries and quantifies the importance of two explanations: restrictive...
The crisis-resilience of services trade
Borchert, Ingo, Mattoo, Aaditya
Much attention has focused on the impact of the current crisis on goods trade; hardly any on its impact on services trade. Using new trade data from the United States, and more aggregate data from...
Services in Doha : what's on the table ?
Gootiiz, Batshur, Mattoo, Aaditya
Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge, because of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process....
Professional services and development : a study of Mozambique
Fernandes, Ana Margarida, Mattoo, Aaditya
Professional skills are scarce in Mozambique, even by the standards of low-income countries. The solution, however, is not necessarily to create more Mozambican training institutions but to address...
Services Inputs and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Jens Matthias Arnold, Aaditya Mattoo, Gaia Narciso
This paper investigates the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to services inputs. We use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for over 1,000...
Chellaraj, Gnanaraj, Maskus, Keith E., Mattoo, Aaditya
Singapore is an interesting example of how the pattern of foreign investment changes with economic development. The authors analyze inbound and outbound investment between Singapore and a sample of...
Can the Knowledge-Capital Model Explain Sectoral Foreign Invesment? Evidence From Singapore
Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Aaditya Mattoo
Using the knowledge-capital model, we compare factors affecting the inbound and outbound manufacturing and services investment between Singapore and a sample of industrialized and developing...
Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Keith E. Maskus, Aaditya Mattoo
In this paper we analyze changes in the inbound and outbound investment between Singapore and a sample of industrialized and developing countries. The nature of Singapore's two-way investment with...
Foreign Professionals in the United States: Regulatory Impediments to Trade
Changes in demographics and patterns of investment in human capital are creating increased scope for international trade in professional services. India, one of the largest exporters of skilled...
Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New Role for the World Trade Organization
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
Two aspects of global imbalances - undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds - require a multilateral response. For reasons of inadequate leverage and eroding legitimacy, the...
Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills embodied in goods, services, or capital from poorer to richer countries. We first present a set of stylized...
Services in Doha. What’s on the Table?
Batshur Gootiiz, Aaditya Mattoo, Gootiiz, Batshur ; Mattoo, Dr. Aaditya
Criss-crossing globalization : uphill flows of skill-intensive goods and foreign direct investment
Mattoo, Aaditya, Subramanian, Arvind
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills, embodied in goods, services or capital from poorer to richer countries. The authors first present a set of...
Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills, embodied in goods, services or capital from poorer to richer countries. We first present a set of stylized...