"In the existing reports on national competitiveness and rankings such as IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook and WEF … findings into real-world policies. These discrepancies are actually due to the differences in logic and analytical models used … well as offers a number of key policy implications for countries around the world that wish to enhance their national …

international trade. As world trade is set to rebound, this paper addresses three questions: (i) Will trade volumes rebound in a … symmetric fashion as world economic growth rebounds? (ii) Will the crisis result in a change in the structure of trade, and in …