Export Competitiveness - Fuel Price Nexus in Developing 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 ...

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...

Do multinational retailers affect the export competitiveness of host countries ?

Number 46 Skills , Competitiveness and Policy in Developing Countries

This paper deals with the role of skill formation and new skill needs for building technological capabilities for developing countries to compete effectively in manufactured exports. It places the analysis in the context of rapid technical progress and globalisation, with large shifts in the location of productive and innovative activity, patterns of comparative advantage, and systems of indust...

COMPETING WITH LABOUR: Skills and Competitiveness in Developing Countries

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