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.

In the 1980s many developed countries were increasingly tempted to improve their national competitiveness by adopting protectionist policies. This book demonstrates that such policies would be mistaken and do serious damage to industries in the countries concerned. This... 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.

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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.

The American position in trade and direct investment has not recovered from the large deficits incurred during the 1980s. Foreign investors expand their foothold in the United States economy daily and create the lion s share in the American trade deficit while America... 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.

Presents selected applications of the new methodologies developed by the World Bank s Trade and Regional Integration Unit to assess the competitiveness of countries services sector discern the types of barriers to services that exist in the regulatory environment and... Lees meer.

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In the existing reports on national competitiveness and rankings such as IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook and WEF Global Competitiveness Report there are sizable discrepancies in the ranking order for the same countries. As a result the reader is often confused beca... Lees meer.

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John Manzella recognized author speaker and global business consultant shares his inside perspective on the complex challenges that face America in the domestic and global arena. Get a glimpse of which events cause powerful chain reactions and how they will ultimate... Lees meer.

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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.