Promotion policies for services offshoring : Global analysis and lessons for Latin America

Public policies play a key role in enhancing the conditions for attracting investment and boosting services exports, and especially when the aim is to upgrade within global value chains in service sectors and to foster the generation of spillovers and linkages. These policies include not only incentives or regulatory instruments specific to these sectors, but also more general measures related to education, science and technology, financing and infrastructure. The objective of this chapter is to present and discuss the main mechanisms used worldwide to promote the development of the offshore services industry and to draw a series of lessons and recommendations for Latin American countries.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development