Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic Toolkit
Authors:
José Guilherme Reis
Thomas Farole
2012 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
This Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic (TCD) Toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and practical tools needed to conduct an analysis of trade competitiveness. The toolkit can be used to assess the competitiveness of a country’s overall basket of exports, as well as specific traded sectors. It includes guidance on a range of tools and indicators that can be used to analyze trade performance in terms of growth, orientation, diversification, quality, and survival, as well as quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyze the market and supply-side factors that determine competitiveness. The toolkit facilitates the identification of the main constraints to improved trade competitivenes.