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...

Assessing a country''s competitiveness routinely starts with an analysis of the real exchange rate. However, in low-income countries, empirical analysis of the real exchange rate is often subject to important limitations that seriously weaken the results. This paper summarizes the methodologies...

Looks at variations in price changes for goods and services and the relative proportionsconsumers spend on themThe Office for National Statistics collectsa large number of prices every month toproduce the retail prices index (RPI). Someperceive that consumer inflation is higherthan the official...

Explains how official figures are compiled and looks at why some people think the inflation estimate should be higherConsumer price indexes measure the change in prices charged for goods and services bought for consumption by households in the UK. The Office for National Statistics publishes two...

The study paper examines how non-bank financial institutions (in particular money market funds, private equity firms, hedge funds, pension funds and insurance undertakings, central counterparties, and UCITS and ETFs) have performed over the last decade and during the financial crisis. The report...

In this paper, the cardinality constrained quadratic model for binary quadratic programming is used to model and solve the graph bisection problem as well as its generalization in the form of the task allocation problem with two processors (2-TAP). Balanced graph bisection is an NP-complete...