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TRADE & COMPETITIVENESS
GLOBAL PRACTICE ROADMAP
Expanding Market Opportunity & Enabling
Private Initiative for Dynamic Economies
Foreword 1
Why Trade and Competitiveness Matter 2
Evolving Challenges, Emerging Demand 4
Strengthening World Bank Group Engagement on Trade and Competitiveness 7
A Comprehensive Offering 9
A Unique Operating Model 9
Knowledge and Global Advocacy 14
Partnerships
TRADE & COMPETITIVENESS GLOBAL PRACTICE ROADMAP
Expanding Market Opportunity & Enabling P
T&C Offerings: Core Themes and Integrated Solution
T&C at Work: Illustrative Country Engagements and
Expanding Market Opportunity & E
Foreword Achieving the World Bank Group’s Twi
Rapid, private-sector-led growth is essential to
markets, favorable investment climates, and natio
Evolving Challenges, Emerging Demand The task
served segments may need to focus on investmen
Chart 1: Growing Demand for T&C Lending, Advisory
Strengthening World Bank Group Engagement on Trad
8 Box 1: T&C’s Rapid Evolution as a Global Pract
T&C is significantly strengthening the way the Ban
Box 2: T&C’s Comprehensive Offering CORE THEMES
to complementary efforts such as investment in
12 Box 3: Examples of Integrated Solutions in Co
Box 4: T&C’s Instrument Array T&C delivers thro
Knowledge and Global Advocacy T&C endeavors to b
tor Development offers an organizational anchor t
Partnerships outside the Bank Group with bilatera
Focus on Results As part of its strategic roadma
T&C Offerings: Core Themes and Integ
Trade & Competition Markets and Competition Poli
Based on these modules, the World Bank Group off
Trade & Competition Trade Policy and Integration
and nontariff measures, competition policy, trade
Trade & Competition Trade Facilitation and Logis
Global Products The World Bank Group brings exten
Investment Climate Helping Governments Improve t
The range of in-depth business-environment interv
Investment Climate Investment Policy and Promoti
domestic investors, and reducing sectoral rest
Investment Climate Linkages: Connecting Local Fi
• Design country-specific strategic action plans
Investment Climate Enabling Quality Infrastructu
including the elimination of excessive and
Competitive Sectors Expanding Market Opportuniti
compliance with international food safety, san
Competitive Sectors Manufacturing: Supporting Va
• Supporting access to trade and investment fi
Competitive Sectors Skills for Competitiveness:
• Delivering sector-specific skills solutions
Competitive Sectors Spatial Solutions: Realizing
well-sequenced public and private investments
Competitive Sectors Driving Growth by Building C
work with destinations to improve public-priva
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Growing Tomorrow’s
Assessing opportunities and constraints to growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Innovation Policy
to review public spending on STI to ascertain whe
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Supporting High-Gr
appropriate for the needs and cultural context of
Integrated Solutions Topics Connecting to Global
through the World Bank Group include financial su
Integrated Solutions Topics Productivity Adding
Priority Areas of Additional Analysis Key themes
Integrated Solutions Topics Supporting Economic
What We Offer While there is no magic recipe for
Integrated Solutions Topics The Digital Economy
Integrating e-commerce with wider trade and growt
Integrated Solutions Topics Green Competitivenes
Our work on Green Competitiveness has reached a t
Integrated Solutions Topics Connecting People an
promote the use of an integrated framework for co
Integrated Solutions Topics Trade and Competitiv
and active T&C projects include a programmatic
T&C at Work: Illustrative Country Engage
Country Case Study Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoir
difficulty finding backhaul cargo, and cumbersome
roles of commercial versus own-account transport;
Looking Ahead While the two governments have mad
Country Case Study Colombia Economic Context
In addition to limited trade integration, product
Results In less than a year, companies supported
Looking Ahead In the future, the World Bank Grou
Country Case Study Croatia Economic Context
T&C’s Approach With a population of roughly 4.3
• 5 spillover companies established, with a
Looking Ahead The targeted approach of the Trade
Country Case Study Pakistan Economic Context
T&C’s Approach The World Bank Group program in P
state-owned enterprises, and enforcement of the c
Looking Ahead In the future, T&C will support Pa
Country Case Study Tanzania Economic Context
government capacity for policy coordination and b
4-Results lending operation that would be progres
Partners The main government counterparts are th