Technological development as important condition of international competitiveness

Pursuing International Competitiveness in Iranian Wheat Policy

After the war with Iraq which ended in 1988, Iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on Five-Year National Development Plans. The main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. This paper investigates the extent to which Iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

Brazilian Semiconductor Industry: Technological Change and Competitiveness

This paper intends to investigate how process and product technological changes are sought and conducted by Brazilian semiconductor companies. The semiconductor sector (strongly represented by chips) deserves special attention in the set of links composing the various supply chains of the electronic industrial complex, since it is highly strategic in this context. A survey with all semiconducto...

Human Resource Development and International Competitiveness in Asia

Business Taxes and International Competitiveness

Around the world, policymakers are obsessed with the competitiveness of their domestic companies and domestically based multinational corporations (MNCs). Such concerns frequently influence policy, especially tax policy. In this paper, I develop a theory of how taxes affect the international competitiveness of businesses. I then use that theory to evaluate basic tax policy decisions, such as th...

South Africa’s International Cost Competitiveness