Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: IntroductionThe economic effects of information and communication technology (ICT), and particularly the access and use of the Internet (henceforth referred to as "the Internet"), has become the focus of policymakers, researchers, and scholars.Specifically, the development of the services sector due to, among other things, the rapid development of ICT and the Internet, has led economists to recognize the tradability of services, which were long considered a residual and nontradable sector of the economy.This has led to research on the impact of ICT, including the impact of the Internet on trade in services in particular, and on trade performance in general.The rapid development of the services sector is exemplified by statistics.For example, World Trade Organization (WTO) (2019a) reported that in 2018, the volume of world trade in commercial
Source: Journal of Economic Integration
Author: Sèna Kimm Gnangnon
Institution: World Trade Organization
Language: English
Topic: Global trade and economics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3082340962