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Creating Growth and Jobs for a New Era

Frictionless Services

January 16, 2024
17:30–18:15 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

The services sector generates two-thirds of global GDP and over half of all jobs, yet trade in services costs twice that of trade in goods, with 40 percent of these costs due to opaque and outdated regulations. Recent landmark agreements including the WTO Reference Paper on Services Domestic Regulation and the AfCFTA Protocol on Trade in Services are now coming into effect and giving...
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AE
André Esteves
Chairman and Senior Partner
BTG Pactual
ME
Martin Eurnekian
Chief Executive Officer
Corporación América International
MA
Majid Al-Kasabi
Minister of Commerce
Ministry of Commerce of Saudi Arabia
FP
Fifi Peters
Senior Anchor
CNBC Africa

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