Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics

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Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics

dc.contributor.author	van der Marel, Erik
dc.contributor.author	Sáez, Sebastián
dc.contributor.author	Taglioni, Daria
dc.contributor.author	Zavacka, Veronika
dc.contributor.author	Hollweg, Claire H.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-15T15:25:45Z
dc.date.available	2015-01-15T15:25:45Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	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 sheds light on a country’s ability both to export services and improve its export performance through policy change. This Toolkit is designed to be used in a modular way. Either a full country diagnostic can be undertaken or various parts of the toolkit can be used to address specific questions of interest, whether they pertain to existing services performance, the potential for expansion and growth in services trade, or policy options to increase competitiveness in services trade. The output of an STCD can be used to assess either the overall performance of a country’s services sector or the performance of individual sub-sectors. This Toolkit complements the analytical framework for trade in goods provided by the Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic Toolkit (World Bank, 2012), and allows policymakers and experts in developing countries to better integrate services into their overall trade strategies. In addition, it will also be of interest to international organizations and development practitioners in both policymaking institutions and academia.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0155-6
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4648-0155-6
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/21285
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	competitiveness
dc.subject	development
dc.subject	diversification
dc.subject	economic reform
dc.subject	gravity model
dc.subject	liberalization
dc.subject	services
dc.subject	trade
dc.subject	trade policy
dc.subject	services trade
dc.subject	comparative advantage
dc.subject	trade barriers
dc.subject	regulatory policy
dc.title	Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics	en
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okr.date.disclosure	2015-01-15
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
okr.globalpractice	Trade and Competitiveness
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0155-6
okr.identifier.report	93714
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	International Economics and Trade::Access to Markets
okr.topic	International Economics and Trade::Competition Policy
okr.topic	International Economics and Trade::Export Competitiveness
okr.topic	International Economics and Trade::Intellectual Property Rights
okr.topic	International Economics and Trade::International Trade and Trade Rules
okr.topic	International Economics and Trade::Trade and Services
okr.unit	PRMTR
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