Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics

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,...

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Main Authors:	Sáez, Sebastián, Taglioni, Daria, van der Marel, Erik, Hollweg, Claire H., Zavacka, Veronika
Format:	Publication
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	competitiveness development diversification economic reform gravity model liberalization services trade trade policy services trade comparative advantage trade barriers regulatory policy
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21285

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spelling	okr-10986-212852021-04-23T14:04:01Z Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics Sáez, Sebastián Taglioni, Daria van der Marel, Erik Hollweg, Claire H. Zavacka, Veronika competitiveness development diversification economic reform gravity model liberalization services trade trade policy services trade comparative advantage trade barriers regulatory policy 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. 2015-01-15T15:25:45Z 2015-01-15T15:25:45Z 2014 978-1-4648-0155-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21285 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Publication
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spellingShingle	competitiveness development diversification economic reform gravity model liberalization services trade trade policy services trade comparative advantage trade barriers regulatory policy Sáez, Sebastián Taglioni, Daria van der Marel, Erik Hollweg, Claire H. Zavacka, Veronika Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics
description	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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author	Sáez, Sebastián Taglioni, Daria van der Marel, Erik Hollweg, Claire H. Zavacka, Veronika
author_facet	Sáez, Sebastián Taglioni, Daria van der Marel, Erik Hollweg, Claire H. Zavacka, Veronika
author_sort	Sáez, Sebastián
title	Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics
title_short	Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics
title_full	Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics
title_fullStr	Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics
title_full_unstemmed	Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics
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Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics

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