Search Results - subject:"EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS"

Export Competitiveness, Firm Behaviour and Obstacles for doing Business

Bezic, Heri; Vojvodic, Katija; Stojcic, Nebojsa - In: Business Logistics in Modern Management 10 (2010), pp. 11-26

the intensity of competition are among the factors that have an impact on a country's export competitiveness. Due to the … relationship between different factors affecting the export competitiveness. The paper proposes and empirically tests a model for …

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Rwanda; Request for a Three-Year Policy Support Instrument: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Rwanda

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

Rwanda has achieved high growth and macroeconomic stability under three successive Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangements. Executive Directors welcomed the new Private Sector Investment (PSI) program, which aims to consolidate macroeconomic stability and achieve sustained...

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Reaching the MDGs; An Action Plan for Trade

McDonald, Bradley J.; Gregory, Rob; Elborgh-Woytek, Katrin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

The actions proposed here focus on trade integration, substantially increasing exports of the poorest countries and helping them to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As the foundation for these ambitions, we emphasize the role of a secure, open global trading environmentâ€”strengthened...

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Republic of Congo: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

This Selected Issues Paper for the Republic of Congo discusses economic development and policies. Domestic prices of refined petroleum products are administratively set by the authorities below import parity. Non-oil revenue in 2007 has remained about 20 percent of non-oil GDP, compared with...

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Recent French Export Performance; Is there a Competitiveness Problem?

Kabundi, Alain N.; Simone, Francisco Nadal-De - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Recently, the export performance of France relative to its own past and relative to a major trading partner, Germany, deteriorated. That deterioration seems related to the geographical destination and product composition of trend exports. Faced with an increase in unit labor costs or in its...

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THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE ROMANIAN EXPORTS DURING THE EU INTEGRATION PROCESS

Adriana, GIURGIU - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 310-317

This paper focuses on finding out the leading sectors with high potential to maintain and consolidate the comparative and competitive advantages of the Romania’s exports and analyses the change in the pattern of Romanian export specialisation by estimatin

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GLOBALISATION AND EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS: A THEORETICAL APPROACH

Adriana, GIURGIU; Anca, DODESCU - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 318-324

Over the past two decades, globalisation has given a boost to world trade, has grown one and a half times faster than world output, and the difference has even been considerably higher in recent years as world trade growth accelerated very strongly. More

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Competitiveness in Central-Europe; What Has Happened Since EU Accession?

Allard, Céline - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Since EU accession, trade flows have exhibited strong dynamics in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). During the period leading to the current global turmoil, the region has also experienced continuous exchange rate appreciation and rapid FDI inflows, both likely to have affected these countries'...

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Behind-the-Border Trade Facilitation in Asia-Pacific: Cost of Trade, Credit Information, Contract Enforcement and Regulatory Coherence

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2009

(investment) environment may have an impact on export competitiveness of a magnitude similar to the trade and transport …This paper evaluates the potential contribution of both trade and business facilitation measures to trade and export … competitiveness, as well as the potential gains from adopting a more integrated and coherent approach to trade and business …

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Czech Republic; 2008 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Czech Republic

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

Growth in the Czech Republic is projected to slow sharply in 2009 amid a gathering recession abroad and tightening credit at home. This 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that the shrinking demand from the euro area, especially Germany, will curtail exports and direct investment inflows....

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