Competitiveness and Export Performance of CEE Countries

Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and U.S. Trade Policy

This paper examines the impact of the revocation of tariff exemptions on exports of developing countries using data from cases of the Competitive Needs Limits (CNL), a feature of the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). CNLs are arguably imposed on “super competitive” GSP beneficiaries and aim to reserve the GSP benefits for other “less competitive” GSP eligible countries. The empirical ...

Do multinational retailers affect the export competitiveness of host countries ?

Agri-Food Export Competitiveness in European Union Countries

This article investigates the competitiveness of agri-food exports of the European Union (EU27) countries on global markets, using the revealed comparative advantage (B) index over the 2000–2011 period. Panel unit root tests, mobility index and the Kaplan-Meier survival rates of the B index are used. The majority of agri-food products in the EU-27 countries show a comparative disadvantage on gl...

Enhancing Export Competitiveness of Asian Fruits

Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is the regional development arm of the United Nations and serves as the main economic and social development centre for the United Nations in Asia and the Pacific. Its mandate is to foster cooperation between its 53 member countries and 9 associate members. ESCAP provides the strategic link between global and country-level programmes and issues. It supports the Gove...

Assessing the export competitiveness of Chinese industries

The article presents a framework for measuring, illustrating and comparing industry export competitiveness that takes into account (a) industry specialization, (b) industry export growth rate, and (c) relative industry size. We apply the framework to a dataset of 97 different industries from China over a five year period (2001-2005). According to our results, over 70% of Chinese industries are ...