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



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Autore: Saez Sebastian Visualizza persona
Titolo: Valuing services in trade : a toolkit for competitiveness diagnostics / / Sebastian Saez, Daria Taglioni, Erik Van Der Marel, and Veronika Zavacka Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Washington, DC : , : The World Bank, , [2014]
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (pages cm)
Disciplina: 382/.45
Soggetto topico: Service industries
International trade
Competition
Persona (resp. second.): SáezSebastián
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
Titolo autorizzato: Valuing services in trade  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4648-0156-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810825803321
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