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Author Lewis, Mark, author

Title Assessing Competitiveness after Conflict : the Case of the Central African Republic
Published Washington : International Monetary Fund, Dec. 2006

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Description 1 online resource (16 pages)
Contents ""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""
Summary Annotation 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
Subject Competition -- Central African Republic
Foreign exchange rates -- Central African Republic
Postwar reconstruction -- Central African Republic
Commerce
Competition
Economic history
Economic policy
Foreign exchange rates
Postwar reconstruction
SUBJECT Central African Republic -- Commerce
Central African Republic -- Economic conditions
Central African Republic -- Economic policy
Subject Central African Republic
Form Electronic book
Author Nachega, Jean-Claude, author
Bakhache, Said, author
ISBN 9781451910162
1451910169