Should China revalue the yuan against the dollar? If so‚ what impact may this have on (1) US balance of payments‚ (2) Chinese balance of payments‚ (3) relative competitiveness of Mexico and Thailand‚ (4) firms such as Wal-Mart‚ and (5) US and Chinese retail consumers? China‚ the largest growing market in the world‚ currently has a policy regarding monetary regulation that allows the Yuan to “float”. This has seen the Yuan appreciate by approximately 24% over the past few years. Today‚ the exchange
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relatively small. Hence‚ the researchers believed that the industry has a lot more to offer. Competitiveness‚ on this matter‚ can be associated with the food manufacturing industry. The term competitiveness has been defined in various ways by different literatures. Nonetheless‚ a definition of competitiveness that is more focused and related to manufacturing sector is that “competitiveness in industrial activities means developing relative efficiency along with sustainable growth.” (Lall‚
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE DETERMINANTS OF NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS Mercedes Delgado Christian Ketels Michael E. Porter Scott Stern Working Paper 18249 http://www.nber.org/papers/w18249 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 July 2012 The authors would like to acknowledge invaluable guidance from Antonio Ciccone‚ and essential data analysis by Rich Bryden. Albert Bravo-Biosca‚ Aart Kraay and Giuseppe Iarossi offered very helpful suggestions
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Recent conceptual work on tourism destination competitiveness has proposed a comprehensive approach that adds industry-level competitiveness attributes to more conventional tourism destination attributes. This study builds on these ideas by generating sets of both attributes‚ developing a methodology for assessing their relative importance and examining the degree to which their relative importance varies across locations. Survey data were gathered from tourism industry practitioners in three
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study is to examine competitiveness of the company‚ its interaction with external environment and estimate potential for sustainable growth. In order to achieve the goal‚ three sources of information related to sustainability and corporate social responsibility of businesses generally and applied for the Baltics region were used. The three sources are “Shadow Economy Index for the Baltic countries 2009-2012” by T. Putnins and A. Sauka‚ “Sustainability and Business Competitiveness” by Department of
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International Business Management Module Tutor: Sabrina Akbar Introduction Nowadays‚ the global economy is developing faster and faster. Many countries start to pay much attention to the international competitiveness. More and more people start to research how to build up the high competitiveness in international industry. And some scholars put forward some theories to support the international industry. For example the Michael Porter diamond Model. First of all‚ this paper is going to introduce
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Strategy‚ competitiveness and productivity Lina Vallejo Florida National College Operations Management March 13‚ 2010 Dr. Harvey J. Weiss Strategy‚ Competitiveness‚ and productivity Strategy Organization strategy has a major impact on operations management depending on the variations for operations and supply chain. Operations strategy can have a major influence on the competitiveness of an organization and when it is properly applies and well executed‚ there are good chances that the
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AAEE 2012 CONFERENCE Melbourne‚ Australia www.aaee.com.au/conferences/2012/ Analysis of Competitiveness of Batangas State University College of Engineering Using Porter’s Five Competitive Forces Model Tirso A. Ronquillo‚ Ph.D. Batangas State University‚ Philippines taronquillo@yahoo.com BACKGROUND There are a number of models and frameworks used in the analyses of competitiveness of engineering universities in the context of internationalization and globalization. Although much can
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corporate competitiveness. Enterprise Competitiveness can be tracked back to 1776. Adam smith raised the division of labor theory. But the academia by conscious researches this theory at the start of the 1980’s. Concept of Enterprise Competitiveness Business community and economy community thought enterprise competitiveness played an important role in ensuring the survival and development of their respective enterprises. Enterprise competitiveness is based on industries competitiveness and country
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resources is the condition of the competitiveness before showing in a second time that others factors have to be take into consideration. We will finish by a synthesis of the situation in order development of exports and imports. Each country in the world participates to the trade in function of its production‚ which is determinate by the resources available on the area. A resource could be a natural resource a human resource or a resource in term of process which competitiveness and the economic value of
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