Valuing Services in Trade: A Toolkit for Competitiveness (Trade and Development) - Softcover

Saez, Sebastian; Taglioni, Daria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146480155X ISBN 13: 9781464801556

Verlag: World Bank Publications, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

"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."

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Reseña del editor

This Toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and practical tools for conducting an analysis and diagnostics of trade competitiveness of the services sector. The methods of analysis are fully customised to address the features of the services sector. Successfully tested on country-specific assessments, the methods proposed in this toolkit aim to evaluate the competitiveness of the services sector and identify constraints to improved competitiveness and appropriate policy responses. The output of a services trade competitiveness assessment can be used to assess the overall performance of a country's services sector as well as for individual sub-sectors.

In addition to the desk (quantitative) analysis, the success of a services trade competitiveness diagnostics (STCD) will depend on qualitative assessments and input from a wide variety of stakeholders in the country, including government officials and the private sector. A STCD should therefore be conducted in four key steps: preparation of a preliminary trade outcomes assessment based on available hard data; initial desk research and preparation for fieldwork; in-country field research; and finally, analysis and preparation of the final STCD report and policy recommendations.

The toolkit consists of the following main sections:

• Overview and guidelines for conducting a STCD. This section is illustrative and appropriate to all audiences, including policy makers and managers overseeing a STCD exercise.
• Implementation toolkit, this provides detailed practical information and tools for carrying out the diagnostics exercise. The implementation toolkit is further divided in three modules:
• Module 1: Services Trade Outcomes Analysis (indicators and tools)
• Module 2: Services Trade Potential Analysis (indicators and tools)
• Module 3: Policy Options for Services Trade Competitiveness
• Illustration of Reference Databases
• Databases of indicators that can help assess the importance of services and services trade.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: World Bank Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 146480155X
• ISBN 13: 9781464801556
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 170
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