TY - BOOK ID - 14258594 TI - Trade in services to the Asia-Pacific region AU - Itò„, Takatoshi AU - Krueger, Anne O PY - 2003 SN - 0226386775 9786611125783 1281125784 0226386783 9780226386782 9780226386775 9781281125781 6611125787 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Asia. KW - Banks and banking, International. KW - Pacific Region. KW - Service industries. KW - Telecommunication. KW - Service industries KW - Banks and banking, International KW - Telecommunication KW - Industries KW - Business & Economics KW - Electric communication KW - Mass communication KW - Telecom KW - Telecommunication industry KW - Telecommunications KW - International banking KW - Offshore banking (Finance) KW - Transnational banking KW - Communication KW - Information theory KW - Telecommuting KW - Financial institutions, International KW - International finance KW - E-books KW - trade, asia, pacific rim, service sector, services, international, policy, business, economics, affiliates, subsidiaries, indirect, balance of payment, accounting, tourism, hospitality, finance, telecommunications, hong kong, korea, taiwan, nonfiction, economy, gats, government, regulation, liberalization, reform, productivity, japan, investment, foreign, harmonization, globalization. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14258594 AB - In recent years the tremendous growth of the service sector-including international trade in services-has outstripped that of manufacturing in many industrialized nations. As the importance of services has grown, economists have begun to focus on policy issues raised by them and have tried to understand what, if any, differences there are between production and delivery of goods and services. This volume is the first book-length attempt to analyze trade in services in the Asia-Pacific region. Contributors provide overviews of basic issues involved in studying the service sector; investigate the impact of increasing trade in services on the economies of Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong; present detailed analyses of specific service sectors (telecommunications, financial services, international tourism, and accounting); and extend our understanding of trade in services beyond the usual concept (measured in balance of payment statistics) to include indirect services and services undertaken abroad by subsidiaries and affiliates. ER -