IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/devaaa/239-en.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Overcoming Barriers to Competitiveness

Author

Listed:
  • Orsetta Causa
  • Daniel Cohen

Abstract

Raising manufacturing productivity is of central importance to the developing world and an essential element of policy making. Overcoming Barriers to Competitiveness is about establishing the most reliable analysis of manufacturing productivity possible and helping policy makers set their priorities. The paper demonstrates that productivity rests on five elements of the economy: infrastructure, capital, trade, education and aggregate efficiency. These factors, when multiplied together, give a true picture of a country’s situation on the productivity “league table”. More than a simple comparison, this ranking system allows the identification of which elements in each particular national or regional case require most attention. This approach can be viewed as another way of addressing the so-called “competitiveness problem” of poor countries. It does not say, however, that other areas can be totally neglected; one of the main points of the paper is that all five elements have to be ... L’accroissement de la productivité manufacturière est une priorité essentielle des pays en voie de développement. Vers une meilleure productivité industrielle des pays pauvres se donne pour objectif de fournir une analyse de la productivité manufacturière qui soit susceptible d’aider les décideurs politiques de ces pays à fixer leurs priorités. L’article démontre que la productivité repose sur cinq facteurs: les infrastructures, le capital, le commerce, l’éducation, et l’efficacité globale. Il permet ce faisant de classer les pays relativement les uns aux autres eu égard leur dotation en chacun de ces facteurs. Plus qu’une simple comparaison, ce système de classement permet d’identifier les éléments qui, à un niveau régional ou national, requièrent une attention particulière. L’une des thèses centrales de l’article est que les pays pauvres doivent le plus souvent s’atteler à la résolution de ces cinq handicaps à la fois, l’idée sous-jacente est en effet d’éviter que l’un d’entre ...

Suggested Citation

  • Orsetta Causa & Daniel Cohen, 2004. "Overcoming Barriers to Competitiveness," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 239, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:devaaa:239-en
    DOI: 10.1787/580345651778
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1787/580345651778
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1787/580345651778?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Li, Linjie & Liu, Xiaming & Yuan, Dong & Yu, Miaojie, 2017. "Does outward FDI generate higher productivity for emerging economy MNEs? – Micro-level evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 26(5), pages 839-854.
    2. Thierry Mayer, 2006. "Policy Coherence for Development : A Background paper on Foreign Direct Investment," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-01065640, HAL.
    3. repec:hal:wpspec:info:hdl:2441/10184 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. repec:spo:wpecon:info:hdl:2441/10184 is not listed on IDEAS
    5. Elena Pelinescu & Marioara Iordan & Nona Chilian & Mihaela Simionescu, 2017. "Regional Economic Competitiveness. The Case of Romania," Working papers Globalization - Economic, Social and Moral Implications, April 2017 13, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.
    6. repec:spo:wpmain:info:hdl:2441/10184 is not listed on IDEAS
    7. repec:hal:spmain:info:hdl:2441/10184 is not listed on IDEAS
    8. Lichao Wu & Yanpeng Jiang & Lili Wang & Xinhao Qiao, 2022. "The two faces of urbanisation and productivity: Enhance or inhibit? New evidence from Chinese firm‐level data," Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, The Crawford School, The Australian National University, vol. 36(1), pages 126-142, May.

    More about this item

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:devaaa:239-en. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dcoecfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.