International trade in services is now an important issue in international trade policy. However, measuring countries' competitiveness in internationally tradeable services is fraught with many conceptual and practical difficulties. This article examines these difficulties and shows that the best way of measuring competitiveness is an index which takes account of the relative importance of service exports in a country's total exports of all goods and services.
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Peterson et al. (1987) studied this question.
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