The Service Economy
Services are transforming OECD economies on a massive scale, but are still impeded by regulations and policies that stifle innovation and competition. Comprehensive reforms need to be pursued internationally as well as in individual OECD countries. These are the principal conclusions reached by part...
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OECD Publishing
2000.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705889106719 |
Table of Contents:
- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SERVICE INDUSTRIES
- The nature of services
- Relationship to manufacturing
- Competitive conditions
- Innovation
- Environment
- THE ROLE OF SERVICES IN OECD ECONOMIES
- Trends
- Outsourcing
- Electronic commerce
- EMPLOYMENT AND SERVICES
- Characteristics
- The importance of human capital
- Productivity
- INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN SERVICES
- Trade trends
- Foreign direct investment
- Issues
- Barriers to trade
- GATS
- POLICY ISSUES
- Liberalisation
- Regulatory reform
- Government programmes
- Framework conditions
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Upskilling
- Government services
- Services data
- CONCLUSION
- Annex
- References
