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Logistics Constraints and Investment Climate

Logistics Constraints and Investment Climate. Uma Subramanian Senior Economist Investment Climate Unit Private Sector Department June 10, 2003. Investment Climate Assessments: Objectives. Identify features that matter most for growth and productivity

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Logistics Constraints and Investment Climate

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  1. Logistics Constraints and Investment Climate Uma Subramanian Senior Economist Investment Climate Unit Private Sector Department June 10, 2003

  2. Investment Climate Assessments: Objectives • Identify features that matter most for growth and productivity • Benchmark performance relative to peers around the world • Highlight action to improve business climate • Promote informed dialogue to forge consensus on reform priorities • Track changes over time to gauge impact of reforms

  3. Approaches • Investment Climate Assessments • Doing Business database and Indicators • Diagnostics

  4. ICA • A standard core survey instrument linking constraints to firm-level productivity. • Quantitative questions in terms of dollars and days • Standardized sampling and implementation across countries. • Additional special modules

  5. Investment Climate Assessments: Country Reports Kyrgyz Rep. Moldova Poland Serbia (FRY) Tajikistan Uzbekistan Algeria Morocco  Syria Cambodia China  Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Thailand Eritrea  Ethiopia  Kenya Mozambique  Nigeria Tanzania Uganda Zambia Bolivia  Brazil Ecuador Honduras Nicaragua Peru Venezuela Bangladesh  Bhutan  India  Nepal  Pakistan  Sri Lanka

  6. Entry Regulations Indicators - measure the procedures, time, cost and minimum capital requirements to register a business formally

  7. Global Emerging Trends • Economic liberalization Global markets with extensive outsourcing - rapidly changing spatial distribution of production, supply and demand • “Just in time” deliveries

  8. Ability of countries to participate in global trends are critically dependent on how they are able to deliver goods and services in time and at low cost • Knowledge of technological advances, and adaptation of innovative approaches, • Institutional capacity to implement change

  9. Logistics work under IC Assessing Costs, Time, Variability • Logistics Module : Firm level survey • Diagnostics: “Plumbing” approach • Development of indicators

  10. Case : High Value Exports from Landlocked Country to Europe

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