1. New Database on Measures affecting Services Trade
Current work by World Bank and WTO
Workshop on Trade Policy, Inclusiveness and the Rise of the Service Economy Geneva, 26 April 2018

2. Background
Growing demand for information on trade in services, in particular on actual regulations and policies (advance national policy reform, inform international negotiations, transparency on applied services policies)
Prior initiatives at WTO and WB
WTO: GATS commitments database, services statistics, RTAs database
2012: WB Services Trade Restrictions Database (STRD)
2013: WB-WTO join forces (MoU)
Services Integrated Trade Information Portal (I-TIP services)
2014: OECD releases STRI and regulatory database
2016: Enhanced cooperation with OECD

3. Classification of Applied Services Regulations and Policies
OECD policy areas
WB-WTO taxonomy
Restrictions on foreign entry
Restrictions on the movement of people
Other discriminatory measures
Barriers to competition
Regulatory transparency
Conditions on market entry
Conditions on operations
Barriers to competition
Administrative procedures, regulatory transparency
Miscellaneous

4. WTO-WB Classification of Measures (1/2)
Consistent with previous WB classification and current OECD classification
A. Conditions on market entry
A.1 Forms of entry (including foreign equity limits)
A.2 Quantitative measures (for firms and natural persons)
A.3 Conditions on licensing/screening/qualifications relating to market entry (firms /natural persons)
A.4 Other conditions on market entry
B. Conditions on operations
B.1 Conditions on supply of services
B.2 Conditions on services supplier
B.3 Conditions on government procurement
B.4 Other conditions on operations

5. WTO-WB Classification of Measures (2/2)
C. Measures affecting competition
C.1 Conditions on conduct by firms
C.2 Governmental rights/prerogatives (including public ownership)
C.3 Other measures affecting competition
D. Admin. procedures, regulatory transparency
D.1 Administrative procedures
D.2 Regulatory transparency (including licensing)
D.3 Nature of regulatory authority (related to nature of regulator)
D.4 International standards
D.5 Other regulatory environment and admin. procedures
E. Miscellaneous (E.1 Measures and E.2 Other)

6. Sample of classification

7. Characteristics
Measures: Horizontal, common and sector specific (sectors and subsectors)
Modes of supply
Discriminatory/non-discriminatory
Preferential/non-preferential
Licensing / Cross-border data flows

8. Construction of the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI):

9. Restrictiveness of services trade
policy in 68 economies

10. Average STRI by region

11. STRI by regions and sectors

13. Current and Future work
Focus on applied regulations and policies
Release of new Module on Applied Services Trade Policy
Better respond to user needs (governments, researchers, industry)
Searchable by Member, sector, measure, categories of measures (e.g. licensing, restrictions on cross-border data flows), etc.
70 countries
More countries, more sectors
Enhanced collaboration between WB-WTO and OECD
Find more synergies with other specialised organizations & associations (e.g. ITU, IBA, others)
More quantification work
Complement RTAs Module in I-TIP
Remaining agreements (100 already included)
Add information on main provisions
Comparison with applied policies