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

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• While other emerging regions have been thriving, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's aggregate export performance over the past two decad... Lees meer

Protecting Mobile Money Against Financial Crimes

Pierre-Laurent Chatain, Andrew Zerzan, Wameek Noor, Najah Dannaoui, Louis de Koker

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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

Attracting Investment in Bangladesh--Sectoral Analyses

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Trade
• 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

Let Workers Move

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• The temporary movement of labor is one mode of delivering services across borders. Unlike the movement of capital, and despite significant returns to ... 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

Reform by Numbers

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• 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

Special Economic Zones

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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

The Internal Geography of Trade

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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 c... 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 ad... 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

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• This book fills a large gap in the literature on trade in services. It focuses on the dynamics of trade and investment liberalization in a sector of c... Lees meer

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

Hamid R Alavi, Aira Htenas, Ron Kopicki, Andrew W Sheperd, Ramon Clarete

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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, José-Daniel Reyes

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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

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 living... Lees meer

Streamlining Non-Tariff Measures

Olivier Cadot, Mariem Malouche, Sebastian Saez

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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 tr... 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

The Eurasian Connection

Cordula Rastogi, Jean-François 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 existin... 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 country... Lees meer

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

Gael Raballand, Salim Refas, Monica Beuran, Gozde Isik

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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 ... Lees meer

Costa Rica Five Years After Cafta-Dr

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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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• The world is getting richer, but fragile countries and territories are not. By 2015, most of the poor will live in these economies, most of which have... Lees meer

Sustaining Trade Reform

Elías A Baracat, J Michael Finger, Raúl León Thorne, Julio J Nogués

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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