Services Development and Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing

Read this working paper in the Policy Research Working Papers series put out by the World Bank. The authors argue that services have to compete for resources alongside manufacturing, with implications for export industries.

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Figure 3: Correlation between services trade barriers and the share of embodied foreign services for textiles sector in year 2000

Notes: The vertical axis represents the share of embodied foreign financial services among the embodied foreign and domestic financial services for year 2000. The horizontal axis represents financial services trade restriction index, using the data from the World Bank Services Trade Restriction Indexes (STRI).