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The Global Enabling Trade Report 2008
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Geneva, Switzerland, 18 June 2008
East Asian economies Hong Kong and Singapore occupy the top two positions in the Enabling Trade Index ranking, followed by Sweden and Norway, according to The Global Enabling Trade Report 2008, released by the World Economic Forum. Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand complete the top 10 list.
The results bear witness to Hong Kong and Singapore’s openness to international trade and investment as part of their successful economic development strategy. Both countries have put into place customs administrations that are highly efficient in getting goods over borders. They are also endowed with well developed transport and telecommunications infrastructures ensuring rapid transit to final destination. These attributes are further supported
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by business environments that are conducive to the logistics and transport industry. (Read the full highlights)
Published for the first time and covering 118 economies worldwide, The Global Enabling Trade Report 2008 aims to present a cross-country analysis of the large number of measures facilitating trade.
The Enabling Trade Index, featured in the report, measures the factors, policies and services facilitating the free flow of goods over borders and to destination. The index breaks the enablers into four overall issue areas: (1) market access, (2) border administration, (3) transport and communications infrastructure and (4) the business environment. |
Watch video interviews with some of the Report co-editors:
Interview with Robert Z. Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of Trade and Investment, Harvard University, and Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz, Senior Economist, World Economic Forum.
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Robert Z. Lawrence
Harvard University
17 June 2008 - 3min 33sec
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Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz
World Economic Forum
17 June 2008 - 4min 08sec
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The report is intended to support individuals and organizations wanting to improve the trade efficiency in their respective countries of business. It is of immense importance to establish a dialogue between governments and the private sector on how to improve economies by enabling trade country by country. The report is the first - and already a very good - tool for this.
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Tarek Sultan,
Chairman and Managing Director of Agility
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Videos:
Bloomberg video, interview with Margareta Drzeniek
CNBC video, interview with Margareta Drzeniek
CNN video, Global Enabling Trade Report 2008
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India Daily, India
ArabBusiness.com, UEA
Business-Standard.com, India
Business 24-7, UEA
The Times of India, India
YubaNet.com, USA
Le Temps, Switzerland
O Globo, Brazil
Xinhua News Agency, China
Japan Economic News, Japan
The Guardian, UK
El Mercurio, Chile
People's Daily Online, China
Reuters, UK
Logistics Briefings, UK
Hindustan Times, India
Today.az, Azerbijan
Clarin, Argentina
Prensa Libre, Guatemala
Les Echos, France
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