Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Overview; What Is Trade in Services and How Is It Regulated?; Why Is Trade in Services Important for Developing Countries?; Boxes; 0.1 What Are Services?; What Is a Regulatory Assessment of Services Trade and Investment (RASTI)?; Figures; 0.1 Horizontal, Sectoral, and Service-Level Analysis of a Regulatory Assessment of Services Trade and Investment (RASTI); 0.2 Three Steps of a Regulatory Assessment of Services Trade and Investment (RASTI); Notes; Tables. 0.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Selected Regulatory StrategiesReferences; Policy Framework for Regulating Trade and Investment in Services; Objectives; Economic Rationales for Regulation; PF.1 Key Regulatory Issues and Modes of Supply in Selected Services Sectors; PF.2 Policy Goals and Approaches to Ensuring Competition in Services by Regulating Monopolies; PF.3 Examples of Regulatory Interventions for Dealing with Market Failures; PF.1 Regulatory Solutions to Information Problems in Selected Markets; Noneconomic Rationales for Regulation. PF.4 Noneconomic Regulatory Objectives and Common InterventionsPF.2 Regulation for "Public Interest" under International Trade Agreements; Challenges to and Principles of Regulation; PF.3 Institutional Limitations Affecting Regulator Capacity in Developing Countries; PF.4 Good Regulatory Principles: Excerpts from the APEC-OECD Integrated Checklist on Regulatory Reform; Conclusion; PF.5 Regulatory Failures in Infrastructure Services in Selected Countries; Notes; References; Module 1 Mapping Regulations and Evaluating Governance; Objectives. Mapping Laws and Regulations Affecting Services Trade and Investment1.1 Module 1 of a Regulatory Assessment of Services Trade and Investment; 1.1 Measures Affecting Trade and Investment in Services in Kingdom of Uqbar; 1.2 Parameters for Evaluating Services Regulation; 1.3 Measures Affecting Trade and Investment in Services, by Stage of Supply; Assessing the Governance Framework; 1.4 Sample Questions for Collecting Information for a Regulatory Mapping; 1.1 Barriers to Trade in Services in Cambodia; 1.2 Policy-Making Benefits of Effective Intragovernmental Coordination. 1.2 Information Flow for Policy on and Regulation of Trade and Investment in Services1.5 Sample Questions for Mapping the Governance Framework; Conclusion; References; Module 2 Assessing the Impact of Services Regulations: A Review of Empirical Methods; Objectives; Direct Methods; 2.1 Sources of Information on Regulatory Measures Affecting Trade and Investment in Services; 2.2 Scoring Regulations in the Banking Sector; 2.3 Assessing Banking Regulations Based on a Two-Dimensional Taxonomy. 2.4 Assessing Regulations in the Telecommunications, Engineering, and Banking Sectors Based on the Mode of Supply. The services sector-ranging from telecommunications and banking to business processing and outsourcing-is increasingly recognized as part and parcel of any trade strategy, both as a source of export diversification in its own right as well as a key component of a country's competitiveness. Unlike trade in goods, which is governed by border measures that regulate the entry of foreign merchandise, international trade in services is subject to a wide range of domestic laws and regulations that govern access and operations by both domestic and foreign suppliers. While such regulations are essentia.