Trade Facilitation, Transport and Development

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Short description

This course was held as part of the World Bank’s Transport Forum 2005
and was designed as a learning tool for Bank staff interested in trade facilitation
and logistics barriers, as they relate to growth and developing countries.
It included lectures by Bank staff and a select group of experts from outside
the Bank in areas associated with non-tariff barriers in transport logistics,
customs, regulations, and other factors affecting export success. It also
provided a set of measurement tools and review of data available to inform
(1) country dialogue on trade facilitation, and (2) project preparation,
supervision, and impact evaluation.

This is a link to the materials presented on a CD at the course during the session on "Trade Facilitation, Transport and Development".  Link to Agenda for this session.

Type

Training opportunity

URL

http://www.worldbank.org/transport/learning/learning%20week/trade_facil_2005/int

Topics

Building TTF Partnerships , Economic Development and Trade Facilitation , Measuring the economic impact of trade facilitation , Public-private partnerships , Regional Partnerships , Trade Facilitation and competitiveness , Trade Logistics practical measures , Trade logistics' statistics , TTF performance measurement , TTF promotion

Goals

The one-day course and the analytical material gathered for participants
offered a practical and concrete set of tools and information for staff in the
regions and networks interested in trade facilitation and competitiveness.

Scope and activities

The relationship between poverty reduction, trade, and growth is relatively
simple in theory. Expansion of trade is achieved, at least in part, through
programs to lower transaction costs in goods and services crossing borders.
This involves streamlined administrative and regulatory procedures, ports and customs modernization, and diffusion of information technology in transport systems to lower transactions costs.

Trade facilitation and action to reduce non-tariff barriers to trade are at
forefront of development policy debate. They are also an important part of negotiations in the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Agenda,
and regional trade and integration initiatives across the regions. The Bank
has also established a Trade Logistics and Facilitation Group which includes increased assistance to staff and clients trade logistics and facilitation.

Start / End date

from Mar 14, 2005 to Mar 14, 2005

Status

Past

Main contact

John Wilson

Partners

World Bank

Lead Partners

World Bank

Geographic coverage

Regions:
Countries:
Global: Yes

Events

Transport Forum 2005

Fully online

No

Selected Activity

No