World Bank2024-12-032024-12-032024-12-09978-1-4648-2082-3Library of Congress Control Number: 2024942120https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42486Services are a new force for innovation, trade, and growth in East Asia and Pacific. The dramatic diffusion of digital technologies and partial policy reforms in services--from finance, communication, and transport to retail, health, and education--is transforming these economies. The result is higher productivity and changing jobs in the services sector, as well as in the manufacturing sectors that use these services. A region that has thrived through openness to trade and investment in manufacturing still maintains innovation-inhibiting barriers to entry and competition in key services sectors. 'Services Unbound: Digital Technologies and Policy Reform in East Asia and Pacific' makes the case for deeper domestic reforms and greater international cooperation to unleash a virtuous cycle of increased economic opportunity and enhanced human capacity that would power development in the region.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOSERVICES REFORMDIGITALIZATIONPRODUCTIVITYJOBSACCESSLIBERALIZATION AND REGULATIONSKILLS AND INFRASTRUCTUREBookWorld Bank10.1596/978-1-4648-2082-3https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-2082-3