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Oriental Republic of Uruguay : Integration into Global Value Chains the Dairy Industry and the ICT Industry
Criscuolo, Alberto - 2014
Uruguay has much to gain from further integration with the global marketplace. Increased trade allows economies of scale and increases exposure to technological and knowledge spillovers, resulting in greater productivity. Participating in global and regional value chains is an important...
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Information and Communications Technology Sectoral Analysis : Nepal
World Bank Group - 2018
Nepal's information and communications technology (ICT) services are nascent, informal and centered in Kathmandu. The supply of skilled manpower is not well-oriented to the needs of ICT firms. Similar to other sectors, Nepal's ICT sector also faces severe cross-cutting business climate...
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Transforming East African ICT Sector by Creating a Business Engine for SMEs : SMEs and the East Africa ICT Sector
Ewing, Javier - 2011
For the purposes of this project, the East African countries included in the study were Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. The focus for this project was Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) as for-profit or nonprofit organizations with less than 50 employees and not exceeding USD...
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Market access and development of the ICT sector in the West Bank
Fratto, Chiara; Giannone, Elisa - 2020
Despite the popular view that, with the advent of digital technologies, the world has become flat, geography still plays a key role in the economy. COVID-19 has brought even more awareness of this. This paper studies the impact of security measures that have reduced the mobility of people and...
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Mainstreaming Citizen Feedback on Service Delivery using ICTs : Findings and Lessons from ICT-based Feedback Surveys on Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Indian Cities
Bhatnagar, Vandana - 2017
was introduced by the Government of India's Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) to strengthen the focus on service … integral component of India's urban reform formulations, the availability and quality of this data have tended to remain poor …. In recent years, various social accountability tools and participation processes have also been introduced in India to …
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The Upstream Tariff Simulator (UTAS) : a tool to assess the impact of tariff reform on input costs and effective protection across sectors
Eberhard-Ruiz, Andreas; Varela, Gonzalo; Casal, Lucia; … - 2020
Increased international production fragmentation implies that firms at home rely on imported intermediates for production. In this context, tariff policy design needs to consider the impact downstream of changes in tariffs upstream. Policy makers embarking on tariff reforms need to answer...
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The Global Information and Communications Technology Industry : Where Vietnam Fits in Global Value Chains
Sturgeon, Timothy - 2016
The information and communications technology sector has undergone a dynamic process of globalization and fragmentation in the past few decades, leading to the creation of global value chains. Global value chains are populated by a constellation of specialized actors collectively responsible for...
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Modernizing Tariff Policy
World Bank Group - 2018
Tariff modernization will help Bangladesh diversify its export basket. Tariff modernization is at the crux of input competitiveness for efficient manufacturing given that more than 90 percent of the raw material for exportable goods are imported in Bangladesh and the other export incentives like...
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Lebanon Cost of Service and Tariff Design Study
World Bank Group - 2020
This report aims to provide a background of the electricity sector in Lebanon and to estimate the current and future costs of the sector in order to inform reform plans that are needed to recover the sector financial viability
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Russian Federation, the World Trade Organization, and the Eurasian Customs Union : Tariff and Non-tariff Policy Challenges
Ferrantino, Michael J. - 2016
This paper assesses issues relating to tariffs and nontariff measures (NTMs) in relation to Russia's World Trade Organization (WTO) and Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) commitments. The analysis finds that full implementation of Russia's WTO tariff schedule through 2020, would raise goods imports by...
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