Competitiveness and Private Sector Development.

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• Publisher: OECD Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 235
• Series: Competitiveness and private sector development.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With a total population of over 75 million people and a strategic location between wealthy trading partners, with Russia to the east and a vast market of EU citizens to the west, the Eastern Europe and South Caucasus (EESC) region is attractive as a destination for investment and trade. It is endowed with significant human and resources ranging from the black soil in Ukraine that produces some of the best wheat in the world, to energy reserves in Azerbaijan and unexplored water resources in several countries. However, in spite of recent growth - an average of almost 8% of GDP during 1998-2008.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Executive Summary
Chapter 1. The Competitiveness Potential of Eastern Europe and South Caucasus
Introduction: The unexploited competitiveness potential of the EESC region
Endowments
A strategically located region
Figure 1.1. Investment waves towards Eastern Europe and South Caucasus: net foreign direct investments, selected regions, 1995-2010
A region endowed with plenty of natural wealth
Above-average literacy rates
Recent performance and challenges: Competitiveness needs to be enhanced. GDP growth recovers after the financial crisis but not to previous ratesFigure 1.2. Real GDP growth 1997-2015 (annual percentage change)
Low but fast-growing labour productivity
Figure 1.3. Labour productivity (defined as GDP per employee in constant 2 000 USD) relative to the world
External financing: Enhancing foreign direct investment flows
Table 1.1. FDI in the EESC region, 2009
Figure 1.4. External financing in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus: 1995-2009
Diversifying trading partners
The private sector requires further development. Figure 1.5. Private sector share of the GDP in 2009Need to improve education and support human capital development
Policy priorities for the region
Box 1.1. Policies for Competitiveness Assessment Framework
Human Capital Development
Table 1.2. Three policy areas covered by the Policies for Competitiveness Assessment framework
Access to finance
Figure 1.6. Policies for Competitiveness Assessment Framework for EESC across three dimensions
Investment policy and promotion
Developing a public-private dialogue. Figure 1.7. Gap in perceived state of reform between the public and private sectorsHow to enhance competitiveness
Figure 1.8. Competitiveness perception gap in the EESC relative to OECD 2010
Conclusion: Addressing fundamental structural issues to boost competitiveness
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2. Strengthening the Pillars of Competitiveness
Executive summary
Introduction
Methodology
Figure 2.1. The 12 pillars of competitiveness
Table 2.1. Countries from Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus according to their stage of development
Table 2.2. GCI results for EESC economies. Competitiveness performance of the EESC region: An international comparisonFigure 2.2. Performance of EESC countries in comparison with transition economies
Institutions
Figure 2.3. EESC region performance across the 12 pillars of the GCI
Figure 2.4. Performance of the EESC region on the Higher education and training pillar of the GCI
Figure 2.5. Quality of the educational system in the EESC region between 2005 and 2010
Figure 2.6. Performance of EESC economies on selected indicators from the Goods markets efficiency pillar of the GCI.

✦ Subjects

Investments, Foreign -- Government policy -- Europe, Eastern;Investments, Foreign -- Government policy -- Caucasus, South;Competition -- Europe, Eastern;Competition -- Caucasus, South;Competition;Investments, Foreign -- Government policy;Caucasus, South;Europe, Eastern