01889cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002769 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451972207 1934-7456 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Tamirisa, Natalia. International Trade in Services : Implications for the Fund / Natalia Tamirisa, Alexander Lehmann, Jaroslaw Wieczorek. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003. 1 online resource (25 pages) IMF Policy Discussion Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper reviews the characteristics of international trade in services and of the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) framework, which was established to regulate it. Further liberalization of services trade in developing countries, as currently envisaged in the context of the WTO Doha Development Agenda, holds a number of potential benefits, such as underpinning the liberalization of goods trade, but it is also being resisted due to its potential adjustment costs. Two implications for IMF activities are examined: coherence among the three principal international economic institutions and sequencing with macroeconomic stabilization and regulatory reforms. Mode of access: Internet Lehmann, Alexander. Wieczorek, Jaroslaw. IMF Policy Discussion Papers; Policy Discussion Paper ; No. 2003/006 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/003/2003/006/003.2003.issue-006-en.xml IMF e-Library