The evolution of services sector: An evaluation on Turkey

The technological developments, which affect the world conjuncture recently, caused important shifts in economic life. The production and trade in services also improved rapidly as a result of technological developments and some other factors such as the the fragmentation of production and varied consumer demands. Today, services sector constitutes important proportions of total output and total employment in most countries and trade in services also increases its importance gradually. In this study; the types of service production and supply, different features of goods and services, trade in services, liberalization of trade in services and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) which is the most comprehensive step in the context of liberalization are analysed, the problems of liberalization process in developing countries are mentioned and all of these points are evaluated generally in terms of Turkey.Key Words1.Services Sector2.Trade in Services3.Liberalization of Trade in Services4.GATS5.Turkey