Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets : A Reform Toolkit

Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets : A Reform Toolkit

In a modern world with rapidly growing international trade, countries compete less on the availability of natural resources, geographical advantages, and lower labor costs and more on factors related to a firm’s ability to enter and compete in new markets. One such factor is the ability to demonstra...

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Main Author: Kellermann, Martin
Format: Handbook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank; Braunschweig, Germany: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt 2019
Subjects:
TRADE
STANDARDS
ACCREDITATION
NATIONAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE
QUALITY STANDARDS
COMPETITIVENESS
EXPORTS
TESTING
IMPORTS
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31334
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spelling okr-10986-313342021-04-23T14:05:01Z Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets : A Reform Toolkit Kellermann, Martin TRADE STANDARDS ACCREDITATION NATIONAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE QUALITY STANDARDS COMPETITIVENESS EXPORTS TESTING IMPORTS In a modern world with rapidly growing international trade, countries compete less on the availability of natural resources, geographical advantages, and lower labor costs and more on factors related to a firm’s ability to enter and compete in new markets. One such factor is the ability to demonstrate the quality and safety of goods and services expected by consumers and to confirm compliance with international standards. To ensure such compliance, a sound quality infrastructure (QI) ecosystem is essential. Jointly developed by the World Bank Group and the National Metrology Institute of Germany, Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets: A Reform Toolkit is designed to help development partners and governments analyze a country’s QI ecosystem, provide recommendations to design and implement reforms, and enhance the capacity of QI institutions. The toolkit’s 12 modules provide a systematic, holistic knowledge resource—supported by practical case studies and examples—for QI diagnostics, reform interventions and approaches, and monitoring and evaluation. Related diagnostic tools are also available online at http://www.worldbank.org/qi and https://www.ptb.de/qitoolkit. 2019-02-26T21:43:45Z 2019-02-26T21:43:45Z 2019-03-12 Handbook 978-1-4648-1372-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31334 English International Development in Practice; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Washington, DC: World Bank; Braunschweig, Germany: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication East Africa Brazil Ethiopia Germany Kyrgyz Republic Pakistan South Africa Turkey
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topic TRADE
STANDARDS
ACCREDITATION
NATIONAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE
QUALITY STANDARDS
COMPETITIVENESS
EXPORTS
TESTING
IMPORTS
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STANDARDS
ACCREDITATION
NATIONAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE
QUALITY STANDARDS
COMPETITIVENESS
EXPORTS
TESTING
IMPORTS
Kellermann, Martin
Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets : A Reform Toolkit
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Ethiopia
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Pakistan
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description In a modern world with rapidly growing international trade, countries compete less on the availability of natural resources, geographical advantages, and lower labor costs and more on factors related to a firm’s ability to enter and compete in new markets. One such factor is the ability to demonstrate the quality and safety of goods and services expected by consumers and to confirm compliance with international standards. To ensure such compliance, a sound quality infrastructure (QI) ecosystem is essential. Jointly developed by the World Bank Group and the National Metrology Institute of Germany, Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets: A Reform Toolkit is designed to help development partners and governments analyze a country’s QI ecosystem, provide recommendations to design and implement reforms, and enhance the capacity of QI institutions. The toolkit’s 12 modules provide a systematic, holistic knowledge resource—supported by practical case studies and examples—for QI diagnostics, reform interventions and approaches, and monitoring and evaluation. Related diagnostic tools are also available online at http://www.worldbank.org/qi and https://www.ptb.de/qitoolkit.
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title_fullStr Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets : A Reform Toolkit
title_full_unstemmed Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets : A Reform Toolkit
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