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  "summary": "Using a newly constructed dataset on trade in services for 192 countries from 1970 to 2014, this paper shows that services currently constitute one-fourth of world trade and an increasingly important component of global production.",
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      "heading": "Dataset and scope",
      "content": "- Newly constructed dataset on trade in services covering 192 countries from 1970 to 2014.\n- Dataset enables analysis of service trade at a global and country level across the period 1970–2014."
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      "heading": "Major findings and stylized facts",
      "content": "- Services currently constitute one-fourth of world trade.\n- Exports of services are gaining strong momentum and are catching up with exports of goods in many countries.\n- Growth in services trade could trigger a new wave of trade globalization.\n- Services are an increasingly important component of global production."
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      "content": "- Structural transformation.\n- Resilience.\n- Labor reallocation.\n- Income distribution."
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      "content": "- Title: World Trade in Services: Evidence from A New Dataset\n- Authors: Prakash Loungani, Saurabh Mishra, Chris Papageorgiou, Ke Wang\n- Publication date: March 29, 2017\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2017/077\n- Issue: 077\n- Volume: 2017\n- Pages: 44\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475589887.001\n- ISBN: 9781475589887\n- ISSN: 1018-5941\n\nSource: IMF Working Papers, \"World Trade in Services: Evidence from A New Dataset\" (authors and publication details as listed above).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- World Trade in Services: Evidence from A New Dataset\n  - World Trade in Services: Evidence from A New Dataset (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - World Trade in Services: Evidence from A New Dataset (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2017/03/29/world-trade-in-services-evidence-from-a-new-dataset-44776"
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    "Services currently constitute one-fourth of world trade.",
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    "Title: World Trade in Services: Evidence from A New Dataset",
    "Authors: Prakash Loungani, Saurabh Mishra, Chris Papageorgiou, Ke Wang",
    "Publication date: March 29, 2017",
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    "Issue: 077",
    "Volume: 2017",
    "Pages: 44",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475589887.001",
    "ISBN: 9781475589887",
    "ISSN: 1018-5941",
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