Strengthening Competitiveness in Bangladesh Thematic Assessment

Sanjay Kathuria, Mariem Malouche

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• This is volume 2 of a three-volume publication on Bangladesh s trade prospects. Bangladesh s ambition is to build on its very solid growth and poverty... Lees meer

Champions Wanted

Mélise Jaud, Caroline Freund

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Trade
• While other emerging regions were thriving, MENA's aggregate export performance over the past two decades has been consistently weak. Using detailed f... Lees meer

Attracting Investment in Bangladesh Sectoral Analyses

World Bank

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• This is volume 3 of a three-volume publication on Bangladesh s trade prospects. Bangladesh s ambition is to build on its very solid growth and poverty... Lees meer

Protecting Mobile Money Against Financial Crimes

Pierre-Laurent Chatain, Andrew Zerzan, Wameek Noor

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• Mobile Money is a booming industry in an increasing number of countries worldwide. The project results from increased demand for guidance and technica... Lees meer

Pathways to African Export Sustainability

Paul Brenton, Olivier Cadot, Martha Denisse Pierola

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• African exporters suffer from low survival rates on international markets. They fail more often than others, incurring time and again the setup costs ... Lees meer

Let Workers Move

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• "Unlike the movement of capital, the movement of labor across countries remains highly restricted-despite the huge global returns to international lab... Lees meer

Special Economic Zones

Gokhan Akinci

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• For countries as diverse as China and Mauritius, Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have been a powerful tool to attract foreign investment, promote export... Lees meer

Reform by Numbers

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Trade
• This book was written in the context of new and innovative policies for customs and tax administration reform. Eight chapters describe how measurement... Lees meer

Trade Policy and Food Security

World Bank

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• "Based on forecasts of global population growth, food security will remain an important economic development issue over the next several decades. In a... Lees meer

The Internal Geography of Trade

Thomas Farole

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• "Over the past two decades, the rapid integration of many developing countries into global markets has contributed to a convergence of incomes across ... Lees meer

Getting the Most Out of Free Trade Agreements in Central America

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• Central America has put the promotion of international trade at the center of its development agenda. Over the past years the region has witnessed the... Lees meer

Financial Services and Preferential Trade Agreements

Mona Haddad

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• This volume chronicles the recent experience of governments in the Latin American region that have successfully completed financial services negotiati... Lees meer

Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia

Asean Secretariat, World Bank Group, Asian Development Bank

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• Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia challenges policy makers who oversee the rice sector in Southeast Asia and r... Lees meer

Vietnam at a Crossroads

World Bank

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• Vietnam is at a crossroads. It can grow as an export platform for GVCs, specializing in low value-added assembly functions with industrialization occu... Lees meer

Reforming Non-Tariff Measures

Olivier Cadot, Michael J Ferrantino, Julien Gourdon

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• High levels of trade costs persist in the world trading system, despite recent progress in tariff reduction, trade facilitation, and logistics. At lea... Lees meer

Natural Resource Abundance, Growth, and Diversification in the Middle East and North Africa

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• MENA is one of the richest regions in the world in terms of natural resources: it holds more than 60 percent of the world's proven oil reserves, mostl... Lees meer

Trade in Zimbabwe

Richard Newfarmer, Martha Denisse Pierola

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• "In Zimbabwe, trade has been a driver of economic growth, rising incomes, and progressive empowerment of Zimbabweans through rising standards of livin... Lees meer

Streamlining Non-Tariff Measures

Olivier Cadot, Mariem Malouche

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• "This toolkit provides a novel approach and a set of tools that allow policymakers and analysts to identify non-tariff measures (NTMs), assess their t... Lees meer

The Eurasian Connection

Cordula Rastogi, Jean-Francois Arvis

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• "The Modern Silk Route is offering a potential land-bridge between China and Europe through Central Asia and Russia that offers a complement to existi... Lees meer

Toward New Sources of Competitiveness in Bangladesh

Sanjay Kathuria, Mariem Mezghenni Malouche

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• "Bangladesh's ambition is to build on its very solid growth and poverty reduction achievements, and accelerate growth to become a middle income countr... Lees meer

Why Does Cargo Spend Weeks in Sub-Saharan African Ports?

Gael Raballand, Salim Refas, Monica Beuran

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• Sub-Saharan Africa has a serious infrastructure deficit-estimated at about $48 billion a year-which is impeding the continent's competitiveness and he... Lees meer

Costa Rica Five Years after CAFTA-DR

Friederike (Fritzi) Koehler-Geib, Susana M Sanchez

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• For Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic-Central America-free trade agreement (CAFTA-DR) has been more than a trade agreement. Costa Rica has used trade... Lees meer

Trading Away from Conflict

Massimiliano Calì

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• While economic growth in developing countries over the last ten years has lifted more people out of poverty than in any previous time, more than one b... Lees meer

Sustaining Trade Reform

Elias A Baracat, J Michael Finger, Raul Leon Thorne

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• "Factually, the principal finding of this book is that the trade policy reforms introduced by Peru in the 1990s have continued over several changes of... Lees meer