Border management modernization [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Gerard McLinden [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1147 p.)
• Disciplina: 325; 363.28/5
• Soggetto topico: Border security; Boundaries; National security
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: McLindenGerard
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary; Chapter 2: The Future of Border Management; Chapter 3: Border Management Modernization and the Trade Supply Chain; Chapter 4: Borders, their Design, and their Operation; Chapter 5: Building a Convincing Business Case for Border Management Reform; Chapter 6: Core Border Management Disciplines: Risk Based Compliance Management; Chapter 7: Information and Communications Technology and Modern Border Management ; Chapter 8: Developing a National Single Window: Implementation Issues and ConsiderationsChapter 9: Information and Communications Technology Procurement for Border Management; Chapter 10: The Role of the Private Sector in Border Management Reform; Chapter 11: Reform Instruments, Tools, and Best Practice Approaches; Chapter 12: Managing Organizational Change in Border Management Reform; Chapter 13: Nontariff Measures: Impact, Regulation, and Trade Facilitation; Chapter 14: Regional Integration and Customs Unions ; Chapter 15: Information and Communications Technology in Support of Customs Unions: A case study of the European UnionChapter 16: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Border Management; Chapter 17: Transit Regimes; Chapter 18: The National Security Environment: Strategic Context; Chapter 19: Border Management Considerations in Fragile States; Chapter 20: Integrity Risk Modeling in the Border Management Context; Editors and Contributing Authors; Index; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Border clearance processes by customs and other agencies are among the most important and problematic links in the global supply chain. It takes three times as many days, nearly twice as many documents, and six times as many signatures to import goods in poor countries than it does in rich ones. Delays and costs at the border undermine a countryâ€TMs competitiveness, either by taxing imported inputs with deadweight inefficiencies or by adding costs and reducing the competitiveness of exports. As countries have come to realize the importance of trade in achieving sustainable economic growth they
• Titolo autorizzato: Border management modernization
• ISBN: 1-282-96652-9; 9786612966521; 0-8213-8597-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458451003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II