Valuing Services in Trade: A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics

Sebastián Sáez, Erik van der Marel (), Daria Taglioni (), Veronika Zavacka () and Claire H. Hollweg

No 21285 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The Service Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic (STDC) Toolkit is part of a larger agenda of trade competitiveness work developed by the World Bank’s International Trade Unit in recent years. Services are a key input in countries’ trade competitiveness, as well as a new source of trade diversification, making it critical to understand what factors and main constraints matter most for services competitiveness. The Toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and set of practical tools to conduct a thorough analysis and diagnostic of trade competitiveness in the services sector with a methodology that sheds light on a country’s ability both to export services and improve its export performance through policy change. This Toolkit is designed to be used in a modular way. Either a full country diagnostic can be undertaken or various parts of the toolkit can be used to address specific questions of interest, whether they pertain to existing services performance, the potential for expansion and growth in services trade, or policy options to increase competitiveness in services trade. The output of an STCD can be used to assess either the overall performance of a country’s services sector or the performance of individual sub-sectors. This Toolkit complements the analytical framework for trade in goods provided by the Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic Toolkit (World Bank, 2012), and allows policymakers and experts in developing countries to better integrate services into their overall trade strategies. In addition, it will also be of interest to international organizations and development practitioners in both policymaking institutions and academia.

Keywords: International; Economics; and; Trade-Access; to; Markets; International; Economics; and; Trade-Competition; Policy; International; Economics; and; Trade-Export; Competitiveness; International; Economics; and; Trade-Intellectual; Property; Rights; International; Economics; and; Trade-International; Trade; and; Trade; Rules; International; Economics; and; Trade-Trade; and; Services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4648-0155-6
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