Economic Growth
Creating Growth and Jobs for a New Era
Frictionless Services
Speakers: Martin Eurnekian, Fifi Peters, Majid Al-Kasabi, André Esteves
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The services sector generates two-thirds of global GDP and over half of all jobs, yet trade in services costs twice that of trade in goods, with 40 percent of these costs due to opaque and outdated regulations.
Recent landmark agreements including the WTO Reference Paper on Services Domestic Regulation and the AfCFTA Protocol on Trade in Services are now coming into effect and giving much-needed impetus to global efforts to reduce restrictions in the sector.
How can we reform outdated restrictions and build back trust in the services economy?
This session builds on the new Streamlining Services initiative of the World Economic Forum.
Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics
The Forum's Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics is helping stakeholders shape progress on global and regional priorities within the most complex geopolitical and geo-economic landscape in decades.
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