1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797522503321

Autore

Savkin Andrey V.

Titolo

Safe robot navigation among moving and steady obstacles / / Alexey S. Matveev [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : , : Butterworth-Heinemann, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-12-803757-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 p.)

Disciplina

629.892

Soggetti

Mobile robots - Navigation

Autonomous robots

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957513403321

Autore

Sáez Sebastián

Titolo

Valuing services in trade : a toolkit for competitiveness diagnostics / / Sebastian Saez, Daria Taglioni, Erik Van Der Marel, and Veronika Zavacka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : The World Bank, , [2014]

ISBN

9781464801563

1464801568

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Collana

Trade and Development

Disciplina

382/.45

Soggetti

Service industries

International trade

Competition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Balance of Payment (BOP) Codes Used in This Book""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""T""; ""W""; ""Introduction""; ""The Role of Services in Trade and Competitiveness: Key Issues and Debates""; ""The Role of Regulation""; ""Organization of the Toolkit""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Module 1 Assessing Services Trade and Competitiveness Outcomes""; ""Size of Trade in Services""

""Comparing a Country�s Trade in Services with Peers and the World""""Notes""; ""References""; ""Module 2 Services as a Source of Competitiveness in the Whole Economy""; ""Services in the Domestic Economy""; ""Linkages to the Rest of the Economy""; ""Services Indirect Linkages""; ""Note""; ""References""; ""Module 3 Assessing the Potential for Trade in Services""; ""Assessing Tradability by Modes""; ""Assessing Tradability Based on Production""; ""Assessing Tradability Based on Comparative Advantage""; ""Assessing Tradability through Gravity Models""; ""Annex""; ""Notes""; ""References""

""Module 4 Policy Options for Increasing Competitiveness and Trade in the Services Sector""""Reasons for Regulatory Policies""; ""Trade Policy



Barriers""; ""Domestic Factors that Enable Trade in Services""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Appendix A: Export of Value Added Database""; ""Appendix B: Trade in Services Database""; ""Boxes""; ""1.1 Modes of Services Trade and Data on Trade in Services""; ""1.2 How Can Developing Countries Join and Climb the Ladder of Global alue Chains?""; ""1.3 What Kind of Firms Export Services?""

""1.4 Using Firm-Level Data to Estimate Concentration Ratios: Evidence from Romania""""1.5 Services Sophistication: Handle with Care""; ""1.6 What Is a Gravity Model?""; ""2.1 Does India Defy the General Pattern of Ladders of Comparative Advantage?""; ""2.2 What Is the Structure of the Services Sector? Evidence from Romania""; ""2.3 Where Do Services Inputs Go? Evidence from Ghana""; ""2.4 Output, Value Added, and the Importance of the Wholesale Sector for Exports of Downstream Goods: Evidence from Romania""; ""3.1 How Are Remittances Classifi ed?""

""3.2 Quantifying Tradability Potential: Evidence from Romania""""3.3 The Updated Tradability Index of Gervais and Jensen""; ""3.4 How Are Factor Intensities Computed?""; ""3.5 What Does Firm Productivity Say about the Likelihood of Exporting? Evidence from Romania""; ""4.1 Weak Policies, Weak Investment Climate, and Weak Integration into World Markets in the Middle East and North Africa""; ""4.2 Good Policy Practice: Increasing the Transparency of Regulations Governing Lawyers Working in Asia-Pacifi c Economic Cooperation (APEC) Member Economies""

""4.3 Good Policy Practice: Achieving Universal Postal Coverage in Trinidad and Tobago""

Sommario/riassunto

The Service Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic (STDC) Toolkit is part of a larger agenda of trade competitiveness work developed by the World Bank's International Trade Unit in recent years. Services are a key input in countries' trade competitiveness, as well as a new source of trade diversification, making it critical to understand what factors and main constraints matter most for services competitiveness. The Toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and set of practical tools to conduct a thorough analysis and diagnostic of trade competitiveness in the services sector with a methodology that