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Export Competitiveness Thematic Group
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 | | Repository of knowledge on policies and institutions enhancing export competitiveness. Offers a compendium of resources on benchmarking indices, easy to use toolkits, Bank's lending operations and AAA on trade, and useful websites within and outside the Bank.                                                                          More >> |  The three pillars of export competitiveness (Read more..) | Incentive framework | Services and costs | Overcoming market and government failures | | Overall macroeconomic stability including removal of tariff and quota barriers, exchange rate rigidity and overvaluation, and tax regimes. | Efficiently produced critical backbone services and inputs including telecommunications and energy, customs and logistics, transport, and investment climate. | A set of industrial policies including fiscal incentives for export, economic zones and clusters, fostering of export-oriented innovation, promotion, and institutions for reform.
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 | NEW!  Duty and Tax Relief and Suspension Schemes for Improving Export CompetitivenessÂ
Professor David Widdowson, CEO, Customs and Excise Studies Center, University of Canberra, Australia
September 8, 2009. 9:30-1:00. JB1-075.                                                                              More >> |
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| NEW!  Featured publication
Duty and Tax Relief and Suspension Schemes for Improving Export Competitiveness: A Learning Toolkit
Offers dmonstrative cases and discusses guidelines from the Kyoto Protocol related to the global best practices on duty and tax drawback, bonded warehousing, manufacturing under bond, re-exportation in the same state, inward processing, and free zones and EPZs.
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 | |  Selected Policy Notes | PREM Notes summarize good practices and key policy findings on economic policy related topics. The current collection covers topics such as EPZ, trade promotion, pre-shipment inspections, pre-shipment finance, and country case studies from Asia and the Middle East. Â
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| Trade Notes summarize recent research on global trade issues. The current collection covers topics such as export finance, export promotion agencies, safety standards, market access issues, and the Doha round.
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 | FPD Notes cover private sector development issues related to export competitiveness including foreign direct investment, regulations on quality, SMEs, informality, etc.
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| Â | | Â Resources | This database offers the best and most current online resources on policy and institutional issues that are relevant for export competitiveness. The database is organized thematically and each topic offers up to 30 policy papers, case studies and websites. With the help of experts on each topic, we update these lists regularly. The brief policy notes featured under each topic summarize the key issues on each topic directly contextualizing the key references.
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