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The Economy-Wide Effects of Further Trade Reforms in Tunisia's Services Sectors / Dee, Philippa
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Dee, Philippa
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Air.
- Air fares.
- Air passenger.
- Air traffic.
- Air transport.
- Aviation industry.
- Banks & Banking Reform.
- Carriers.
- Domestic aviation.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Emerging Markets.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Financial incentives.
- Freight.
- International air services.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Maritime transport.
- Markets and Market Access.
- Passenger traffic.
- Passenger transport.
- Passengers.
- Private Sector Development.
- Routes.
- Sanitation.
- Tax.
- Transport.
- Transport Economics Policy & Planning.
- Transport industry.
- True.
- Local Subjects:
- Air.
- Air fares.
- Air passenger.
- Air traffic.
- Air transport.
- Aviation industry.
- Banks & Banking Reform.
- Carriers.
- Domestic aviation.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Emerging Markets.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Financial incentives.
- Freight.
- International air services.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Maritime transport.
- Markets and Market Access.
- Passenger traffic.
- Passenger transport.
- Passengers.
- Private Sector Development.
- Routes.
- Sanitation.
- Tax.
- Transport.
- Transport Economics Policy & Planning.
- Transport industry.
- True.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (50 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2010
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The purpose of this paper is to benchmark Tunisia against other emerging economies in terms of the regulatory barriers affecting particular services sectors, and to assess the economy-wide effects of further liberalizing these services trade restrictions, compared with reducing the dispersion in barriers to its merchandise trade. On the basis of a rather restricted sample of services sectors, partial regulatory reform would yield gains roughly equivalent to full unilateral reform of manufacturing tariffs, but roughly one-tenth the gains from full bilateral reform of border protection in agriculture with the European Union. The adjustment costs associated with these services trade reforms would be minimal. The paper identifies the reasons why the gains from these services reforms are relatively small, and argues that a wider set of reforms could provide win-win outcomes and even fewer adjustment costs. By contrast, the gains in agriculture and manufacturing tend to come at the expense of domestic output in the reforming sectors - the gains are greater, but so too are the adjustment costs.
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