Significance of foreign trade in services for the development of the world economy has considerably increased over the last few years. If manufacturing of industrial and agricultural output was of paramount importance in the industrial era, nowadays economies of developed countries of the world are getting more oriented into providing of both traditional services (transportation carriages, communications, construction, insurance, etc.) and specialized ones (research and engineering, software development, marketing, legal services, management, consulting, etc.). Development of services market, in particular specialized ones, reflects general level of economy development. It is an important indicator of its adequacy to the modern requirements of a post-industrial society. International trade in services presently represents a worth-ful competitor to a traditional trade in goods in terms of financial value. Significant number of transactions in the services market evidences that the economy of the country is open and characterizes the level of its integrity into the world community.
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