ASR Director Jane Drake-Brockman is lead author of a new T20 Policy Brief: “Impact of Digital Technologies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Trade in Services.” From the abstract: Digital technologies are cutting trade costs for services, turning more services from non-tradables into tradables, and putting trade in services on a stronger relative growth path than […]
Archives for October 2020
Video: ASR Moderates Digital Trade Session at Geneva Trade Week
Australian Services Roundtable Director Jane Drake-Brockman moderated the opening session in the Digital Trade stream at Geneva Trade Week on Monday 28 September, Session 3: Digital Trade and Services Trade – Are They Increasingly the Same? Trade is increasingly going digital, blurring the distinctions between goods and services, commerce and e-commerce. Different regions of the world are […]
New Data Links Outward Investment in Services to Australia’s Services Export Performance
By Professor Jane Drake-Brockman Measurement of trade in services is notoriously difficult. The official statistics on imports and exports contained in the Balance of Payments (BOP) are well known, for example, as measuring poorly at best only three of the four modes of international supply of services. As defined in the WTO, the four modes of […]