General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Commitments Index (0-100, most liberal) - Trade - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators
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This indicator measures the extent of General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments for all 155 services sub-sectors as classified by the GATS and in the four modes of the GATS. Each entry in the country’s schedule is assigned scores based on its relative restrictiveness, using a criteria set out by Bernard Hoekman’s methodology. That resulted in 1,240 scores, ranging from 0 (unbound or no commitments) to 100 (completely liberalized), with an intermediate value of 50 for partial commitments. A simple average of the subsectoral scores were used to generate aggregate sectoral scores (for the 12 main services sectors as classified by the GATS), modes scores, and market access and national treatment scores. The overall 12 GATS commitment index is a simple average of the sectoral indices. Disaggregated indices are available for Market Access and National Treatment and for twelve subsectors: business services, communication services, construction and engineering services, distribution services, educational services, environmental services, financial services, health services, tourism services, recreational and cultural services, transport services, and other services. Source: GATS commitment schedules in the WTO, as scored by the World Bank Institute WTI 2008 team. Scoring and Sectoral weights follow Bernard Hoekman, Tentative First Steps: An assessment of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Services. Finance and Private Sector Development Team- Technical Department, ECA/MNA Regions, Presented at a World Bank Conference, The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies, January 26-27, 1995.
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