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  <title>EconStor Community: Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), Bangkok</title>
  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64246" />
  <subtitle>Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), Bangkok</subtitle>
  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64246</id>
  <updated>2026-04-28T11:21:00Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-28T11:21:00Z</dc:date>
  <entry>
    <title>Sri Lanka's service trade and RCEP accession</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339391" />
    <author>
      <name>Qi, Tao</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Chanda, Rupa</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339391</id>
    <updated>2026-04-04T01:04:02Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Sri Lanka's service trade and RCEP accession
Authors: Qi, Tao; Chanda, Rupa
Abstract: This paper evaluates Sri Lanka's readiness to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), with a focus on services trade. Services exports have grown moderately since 2015, led by travel, transport, and business process outsourcing, while imports have contracted, resulting in a services trade surplus by 2023. Revealed comparative advantage analysis shows clear strengths in travel, transport, construction, and other business services, but persistent weaknesses in ICT, financial, and intellectual property services. Sri Lanka's service economy shows areas of strength that are well aligned with regional demand. However, a range of regulatory, infrastructural, and institutional barriers currently limit trade and investment flows. RCEP offers a framework for addressing these constraints, unlocking access to major Asian markets, and attracting the capital and expertise needed to elevate Sri Lanka's service sectors. Realizing these benefits will require deliberate policy reform, sustained investment in trade readiness, and careful negotiation of liberalization commitments.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bangladesh's service trade and RCEP accession</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339392" />
    <author>
      <name>Qi, Tao</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Chanda, Rupa</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339392</id>
    <updated>2026-04-04T01:04:05Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Bangladesh's service trade and RCEP accession
Authors: Qi, Tao; Chanda, Rupa
Abstract: This paper assesses Bangladesh's readiness to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) from the perspective of services trade. In Bangladesh, services exports have grown rapidly but remain narrow in scope and overshadowed by rising imports, leading to persistent deficits. RCEP countries account for a substantial share of Bangladesh's services trade. While Bangladesh demonstrates competitiveness in construction and professional services, it lags in ICT, transport, and travel services. Unlike tariffs on goods, barriers to services trade are typically regulatory or institutional in nature. Bangladesh faces regulatory gaps relative to RCEP commitments, including restrictive investment approval processes, equity caps, data localization requirements, and underdeveloped transport and tourism infrastructure. Accession could help secure reciprocal market access and offset the loss of LDC trade preferences after 2026, but will require targeted reforms to liberalize investment regimes, close regulatory gaps, and align domestic policies with RCEP commitments.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How important is human capital for services exports? Evidence from South Asia</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339390" />
    <author>
      <name>Dash, Ranjan Kumar</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Sahoo, Pravakar</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Chanda, Rupa</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339390</id>
    <updated>2026-04-04T01:04:06Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: How important is human capital for services exports? Evidence from South Asia
Authors: Dash, Ranjan Kumar; Sahoo, Pravakar; Chanda, Rupa
Abstract: Over the last three decades, South Asian economies have shown a continued upsurge in services exports, contributing to their external sector stability and economic growth. In this context, we examine the role of human capital in boosting services exports and revisit the other determinants of services exports by employing data from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka from 1980 to 2022. The findings reveal that human capital is a significant determinant of service exports. In addition, endowment factors such as financial and institutional development, telecom networks, broadband connections, and the quality of physical capital, along with other macroeconomic factors, are significant contributors to services exports. Our study distinctively establishes the role of human capital in augmenting services exports from the South Asian region. Removing supply-side bottlenecks in education, quality infrastructure, institutional governance, and broadband tele density, among others, to increase the competitiveness of the region's service exports.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>India's FTA with the EU: Opportunities and challenges in services sector</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/301135" />
    <author>
      <name>Dash, Ankita</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Bhattacharjee, Ayona</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/301135</id>
    <updated>2024-08-17T01:01:08Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: India's FTA with the EU: Opportunities and challenges in services sector
Authors: Dash, Ankita; Bhattacharjee, Ayona
Abstract: Trade in services has been of special interest to both India and the EU as services are a major contributor to GDP and trade flows in the two economies. Steadily rising services trade between India and the EU is, however, characterized by certain peculiarities, which are worth noticing. These include differences across sub-sectors, trading partners, modes of trade and regulatory barriers. These make it worth exploring the potential costs and benefits of increasing trade flows through trade agreements even further while also diversifying the sub-sectors and the destination countries. This is highly relevant as after a gap of nine years, in 2022, India and the EU have recently relaunched talks for an all-inclusive free trade agreement (FTA) in 2022, to cater to their common interests concerning trade in services. [...]</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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