Services Unbound: Digital Technologies and Policy Reform in East Asia and Pacific

By: World Bank

Services are a new force for innovation, trade, and growth in East Asia and Pacific. The dramatic diffusion of digital technologies and partial policy reforms in services--from finance, communication, and transport to retail, health, and education--is transforming these economies. The result is higher productivity and changing jobs in the services sector, as well as in the manufacturing sectors that use these services. A region that has thrived through openness to trade and investment in manufacturing still maintains innovation-inhibiting barriers to entry and competition in key services sectors. 'Services Unbound: Digital Technologies and Policy Reform in East Asia and Pacific' makes the case for deeper domestic reforms and greater international cooperation to unleash a virtuous cycle of increased economic opportunity and enhanced human capacity that would power development in the region.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464820821
• ISBN13: 9781464820823
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"