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Belarus: Enhancing Border-Crossing Time Release Studies to Support Trade Facilitation Reforms

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dc.contributor.authorGabrielyan, Gagik
dc.contributor.authorKerswell, Clayton
dc.contributor.authorShemshenya, Irina
dc.contributor.authorAbrashkevich, Aliaksandr
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-12T22:10:58Z
dc.date.available2017-07-12T22:10:58Z
dc.date.issued2017-05
dc.description.abstractBelarus is a member of Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), bordering three European Union (EU) countries (Poland,Lithuania and Latvia), Ukraine and Russia. As such, the country is strategically located for international transit trade. With the aim of boosting the country’s transit role, the government of Belarus is undertaking several infrastructure development projects and regulatory reforms aimed at trade facilitation. Government undertook a Two agencies at the border reform with the goal of reducing the number of agencies at the border to only two, namely Customs and the Border Police. Belarus’s efforts were supported by the World Bank Group (WBG), including the World Bank’s Transit Corridor Improvement Project (TCIP), which is financing the modernization of the transit Corridor-M6 Minsk-Grodno, and the Belarus Business Regulation and National Quality Infrastructure Advisory Project of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) with the aim of improving trade procedures. Border-crossing time release studies are powerful tools for analyzing trade logistics and measuring the performance of border agencies. Insights from a border-crossing study can help in designing and accelerating trade facilitation reforms. Preparing and carrying out an effective study is a challenging exercise in itself, as it involves sensitive data, and complex multi-agency and cross-country relationships. The border-crossing time release study for commercial cargo undertaken by the World Bank Group’s (WBG's) Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice team in Belarus in 2015 is an example that provides important lessons that may be useful for other countries. In this context, the border crossing time release study (BCTR study) was designed by the two WBG project teams, and implemented in close cooperation with the State Customs Committee of Belarus.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/462081496826083840/Belarus-enhancing-border-crossing-time-release-studies-to-support-trade-facilitation-reforms
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/27549
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/27549
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectTRADE
dc.subjectBUSINESS
dc.subjectAGREEMENT
dc.subjectGOVERNANCE
dc.subjectIMPACT
dc.subjectOPENNESS
dc.subjectINSTITUTIONS
dc.titleBelarusen
dc.title.subtitleEnhancing Border-Crossing Time Release Studies to Support Trade Facilitation Reformsen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleBelarus
okr.date.disclosure2017-06-07
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/462081496826083840/Belarus-enhancing-border-crossing-time-release-studies-to-support-trade-facilitation-reforms
okr.guid462081496826083840
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/27549
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b084c52e46_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum27556569
okr.identifier.report115741
okr.importedtrue
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.administrativeEurope and Central Asia
okr.region.countryBelarus
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Customs and Trade
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Foreign Trade Promotion and Regulation
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Trade Facilitation
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Trade Technology and Productivity
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Trade and Multilateral Issues
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Trade and Transport
okr.unitT&C GP-Europe and CA-IFC (GTCEU)
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