LEADER 05661oam 22007335 450 001 9910787371603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4648-0156-8 024 7 $a10.1596/978-1-4648-0155-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000341326 035 $a(EBL)1931629 035 $a(OCoLC)902954187 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001406803 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11888527 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001406803 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11421944 035 $a(PQKB)10379298 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1931629 035 $a(DLC) 2014011512 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1931629 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11008327 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL719016 035 $a(OCoLC)881387060 035 $a(The World Bank)18069918 035 $a(US-djbf)18069918 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000341326 100 $a20140317d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $anc$2rdacarrier 200 10$aValuing services in trade $ea toolkit for competitiveness diagnostics /$fSebastian Saez, Daria Taglioni, Erik Van Der Marel, and Veronika Zavacka 210 1$aWashington, DC :$cThe World Bank,$d[2014] 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 225 1 $aTrade and Development 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-87734-3 311 $a1-4648-0155-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""Comparing a Countrya???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"" 327 $a""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?"" 327 $a""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?"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""4.3 Good Policy Practice: Achieving Universal Postal Coverage in Trinidad and Tobago"" 330 $aThe 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. 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