China's major competitors, South Korea and Japan, over the period from 2000 to 2009. First, we analyse principal factors …Cost has a significant impact on competitiveness within the shipbuilding industry. In China, low costs have created … favourable conditions for domestic shipyards competing in the international market. However, China's shipbuilders have been …

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …