The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership : Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration?
This paper discusses options to facilitate movement of workers between high-income and developing countries within the framework of trade agreements, focusing on the European Union s partnership agreements with neighboring countries. Existing frame...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090911140107 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4241 |
| Summary: | This paper discusses options to
facilitate movement of workers between high-income and
developing countries within the framework of trade
agreements, focusing on the European Union s partnership
agreements with neighboring countries. Existing frameworks
for cooperation offer the possibility of expanding temporary
rather than longer-term or permanent movement of workers
since extant trade agreements provide scope for negotiating
specific market access commitments for services, including
those delivered through the cross-border movement of natural
persons. Even though the potential for such
"embodied" trade in services will not be anywhere
near what would be associated with substantial
liberalization of migration regimes, furthering the services
trade dimension in the European Union s ¬trade agreements
offers significant potential Pareto gains. For the partner
countries these gains from temporary movement of service
providers are both direct - through greater employment
in/revenue from providing services in the European Union -
and indirect - by helping to increase and sustain higher
growth at home. |
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