Export Competitiveness Thematic Group is a repository of knowledge on policies and institutions enhancing export competitiveness. It 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 >> |
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. |
January 12, 2011 - BBL: Trade in Services and Labor Market Regulations Joint Brown Bag Lunch Poverty Reduction (PRMPR) and International Trade (PRMTR)  Co-chairs:
- Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, PRMPR, World Bank
- Jose Guilherme Reis, PRMTR, World Bank
Speaker: David Barnes, IBM Corporation - Presentation (pdf - 1.4mb) Discussants: - Raymond Robertson, Professor at Macallester College
- Sebastian Saez, PRMTR, World Bank
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Featured Publication NEW! A Guide to Trade Data Analysis (pdf), September 2010Â
The objective of this publications is to present a basic toolbox of indicators that can do a good job at either providing background or telling a particular story. It focuses on trade flows.Â
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