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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788524203321

Autore

Lewis Mark

Titolo

Assessing Competitiveness After Conflict : : The Case of the Central African Republic / / Mark Lewis, Jean-Claude Nachega, Said Bakhache, Kadima Kalonji

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-7097-7

1-4527-6728-9

1-282-44795-5

9786613821157

1-4519-1016-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

NachegaJean-Claude

BakhacheSaid

KalonjiKadima

Soggetti

Competition - Central African Republic

Foreign exchange rates - Central African Republic

Postwar reconstruction - Central African Republic

Finance: General

Foreign Exchange

Infrastructure

Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities: General

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Investment

Capital

Intangible Capital

Capacity

Macroeconomics

Currency

Foreign exchange

Finance

Transportation

Competition

Real exchange rates

Exchange rates

Saving and investment

Central African Republic Commerce

Central African Republic Economic conditions



Central African Republic Economic policy

Burkina Faso

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2006."

At head of title: African Department.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-23).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. EXTERNAL TRADE PERFORMANCE""; ""III. EXCHANGE RATE MEASURES""; ""IV. TRANSPORT AND PRODUCTION COST MEASURES""; ""V. GOVERNANCE AND QUALITY OF INSTITUTIONS""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper assesses competitiveness in the case of the Central African Republic, a postconflict country. The paper presents several conventional techniques for assessing competitiveness, namely the real exchange rate and recent trade performance. Several other measures are considered, in particular transport costs and governance measures, which may be more effective in capturing the obstacles to competitiveness posed by the poor security environment and weak institutions common to many post-conflict situations. The real exchange measure and trade measures suggest some mild erosion of competitiveness in recent years, while the other measures indicate that the competitiveness challenges faced by the Central African Republic are much deeper.