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"Services Trade Liberalisation and FDI inflows: empirical assessments for the Arab region" by Chemingui, Mohamed Abdelbasset and MEHMET ERIS Abstract For services as well as goods production, FDI is an important channel for gaining access to know-how, technology, and sectoral best practices. Also, market contestation often lead to production of a wider range of high-quality, cost-efficient services for households and firms. Greater competition in services markets and access to a broader range of differentiated services should increase the productivity and competitiveness of domestic firms, with the extent of the gains depending on the intensity with which services are used as inputs. Firms that are relatively intensive users of services should benefit the most. This could even lead to situations in which domestic firms become competitive in new markets after having benefited from better access to high-quality and/or cost-efficient services. The objective of this paper is to investigate emiricallt the determinants of FDI, particularly in services, for Arab countries. The paper presents a new econometric analysis undertaken to examine the link between FDI flows and services trade restrictions, with a view to determining what sets apart Arab countries from other countries in terms of FDI determinants and quantifying the possible impact on FDI flows and trade if Arab countries are to embark on services trade |
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- Foreign direct investment - Non-Tariff measures in services - Trade in services - Africa (North) - Middle East |
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