This paper assesses competitiveness in the case of the Central African Republic, a post-conflict country. The paper presents several conventional techniques for assessing competitiveness, namely the real exchange rate and recent trade performance. Several other measures are considered, in...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXTERNAL TRADE PERFORMANCE -- III. EXCHANGE RATE MEASURES -- IV. TRANSPORT AND PRODUCTION COST MEASURES -- V. GOVERNANCE AND QUALITY OF INSTITUTIONS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

This paper assesses competitiveness in the case of the Central African Republic, a postconflict country. The paper presents several conventional techniques for assessing competitiveness, namely the real exchange rate and recent trade performance. Several other measures are considered, in...

The industry's lack of competitiveness, absence of economies of scale and a weak supply base are the fundamental issues that must be addressed in order to strengthen the industry and integrate it with regional production networks of foreign automakers. The entry of cheap, smuggled second-hand...

The experience of the Philippines shows that FDI spillover effects are not automatically generated. Opening up the economy to FDI has contributed to the country's exports of high-technology products and overall economic growth. However, the spillover effects of FDI to domestic firms have...

This paper examines the microeconomic interventions used to complement Washington Consensus reforms in Latin America. It maintains that the kind of interventions currently in vogue in most countries lack a sound theoretical and empirical foundation or are applied in a manner likely to prove...