Brookings Trade Forum provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to each volume with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The 2008 2009 edition... Lees meer.
In the midst of turbulence in the international trade this book titled Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact Estimation of Exchange Rates on Trade in Value-Added of ASEAN Economies provides a comprehensive overview on recent developments and policy initiatives in... Lees meer.
Logistics are a critical element for country competitiveness and economic performance including poverty reduction. Most emerging countries such as Asia Africa Latin America and the Caribbean are focusing on export-led growth strategies and poverty reduction strategie... Lees meer.
This toolkit provides a framework guidelines and practical tools for conducting an analysis of a country s trade competitiveness in terms of growth and share performance diversification and quality. It aims to facilitate the identification of the main constraints to... Lees meer.
Ethiopia has undertaken various trade and macroeconomic policy reforms since the 1997 98 to increase the overall trade competitiveness of the country.To investigate whether these policy reforms improves the countries over all level of trade competitiveness over time and... Lees meer.
Featuring case studies and examples of specific interventions and their impact in many countries a number of them in Latin America this book is useful to scholars academics practitioners and policy makers interested in the reduction of logistics costs and poverty red... Lees meer.
Explains how best to scale up private sector investment in developing country SMEs for sustainable development impact. The report identifies four main streams through which investors facilitators and enterprises can form partnerships for sustainable development. Inc... Lees meer.
This book focuses on the analysis and assessment of competitiveness within the Uruguayan broiler industry in a MERCOSUR context. Porter s 1990 national diamond was selected as the appropriate framework for analysis. This research reveals that the unique characterist... Lees meer.
This report emphasizes that open and fair trade is essential for Asia and the Pacific s transition to low-carbon economies and outlines the important role of Aid for Trade in this transition. With the climate crisis threatening the multilateral trading system and poten... Lees meer.
This book describes and analyses competitive factors in Brazil affecting U.S. and Brazilian sales of agricultural goods including grains soy-beans and meats in third-country markets. It provides an overview of Brazil s agricultural imports exports consumption and... Lees meer.
Bovard offers a smashing condemnation of American trade policy and exposes the corrupt core of protectionism and the absurdity of Congress making trade more fair by making it less free . . . . shows how arbitrary and ultimately counterproductive and restrictive our... Lees meer.
The book explores the competitiveness and determinant factors behind machine tool exports of India during the period of trade liberalisation regime. Machine tools being a strategic and high linkage industry with rest of the manufacturing sectors has undergone structur... Lees meer.