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How to Climb it
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Daniel Cohen, Orsetta Causa. Published by : OECD Publishing
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Version: Print (Paperback) + Free PDF
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€24 | $32 | £17 | ¥3300 |
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Imprint:
OECD Development Centre
Availability: Available
Publication date: 14 Nov 2006
Language: English
Pages: 137
ISBN: 9789264028265
OECD Code: 412006061P1
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Table of contents
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Tables of national competitiveness give an easily comparable ranking of the winners and losers of global economic competition. But they don't explain why the “poor” countries are four times less productive than the “rich” ones or why some rich countries are twice as productive as others. Using empirical data from over 50 countries, this book shows how even small differences in a number of factors combine to boost or block productivity. Governments need such information to set priorities. Investors need it too, and two new rankings are proposed as alternatives to a simple comparison of industrial productivity. The first, called the “investor ranking”, is based on infrastructure, human capital and total factor productivity. The second, “exporter ranking”, is for investors whose prime concern is for a production platform well-integrated into world trade. Combining the new rankings with a more traditional one produces three groups of countries, termed balanced, high potential, and vulnerable. Group membership reserves some surprises: you may be rich, but that doesn’t mean you’re not vulnerable.
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Table of contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface
Executive Summary
Introduction
Chapter 1. Manufacturing Productivity|
Chapter 2. Explanatory Factors
Chapter 3. The Overall Productivity of the Economy
Chapter 4. Social Infrastructure
Chapter 5. International Trade
Chapter 6. New Approaches to Competitiveness
Conclusion
Annex I. Data: Definitions and Sources
Annex II. The Econometrics of Productivity
Annex III. Econometric Analysis of Relative Prices and the Lucas Paradox
Annex IV. The Econometrics of Trade
Annex V. Theoretical Framework
Bibliography
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