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

• Autore: Lewis Mark
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (25 p.)
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Central African Republic Commerce; Central African Republic Economic conditions; Central African Republic Economic policy; Burkina Faso
• Altri autori: NachegaJean-Claude BakhacheSaid KalonjiKadima
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Assessing Competitiveness After Conflict
• ISBN: 1-4623-7097-7; 1-4527-6728-9; 1-282-44795-5; 9786613821157; 1-4519-1016-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788524203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2006/303