The note stresses that, service exports provide developing countries with an opportunity to channel acquired skills into high-value export earnings. However, the service most relied upon in such strategies, tourism, can bring additional vulnerabilities. Therefore a coherent service development strategy should aim at a continuous upgrading into more technologically advanced and specialized services. This requires giving the highest priority to development of competitive services sectors, particularly infrastructure services. Strategies must address attracting investments, fiscal and other institutional disincentives to services exports and efforts should be made to assist developing countries in identifying barriers
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