Competitiveness Indices and Developing Countries: An Economic Evaluation of the Global Competitiveness Report

By S. Lall. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Innovation, Poverty and Inequality: Cause, Coincidence, or Co-evolution? (2009, background): “Examples of this are the frequently-cited statistics on the global distribution of R&D (The Sussex Manifesto 1970; Lall 2001), even though we know that fiscal commitments to innovation are only a component of successful competence building.”
China's Competitive Performance: A Threat To East Asian Manufactured Exports? (2004, background): “The concept of ‘‘competitiveness,’’ while widely used, remains controversial (Lall, 2001b).”
The technological capabilities of nations: the state of the art of synthetic indicators (2009, methodology): “8 For a critical analysis of the WEF methodology, see [36].”
Upgrading in Global Value Chains (2004, background): “Investment in upgrading is likely to suffer from the market failures identified by Lall (2001), which supports the case for State intervention.”
Moving to a New Global Competitiveness Index (2008, unknown): “74 Lall 2001.”
An integrative typology of global strategy and global value chains: The management and organization of cross‐border activities (2020, background): “Building on the dynamic technological accumulation perspective (Lall, 1992, 2001), the main mechanism for upgrading lies in the ability of local supplier firms to enhance their innovation and technological capabilities through learning by doing (see, for example, Kaplinsky, Morris, & Readman, 2002;…”
Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Lessons from Latin American Clusters (2005, background): “While CA registers ex-post gaps in relative productivity which determine international trade flows, success in firm-level upgrading enables the dynamic acquisition of competitiveness in new market niches, sectors or phases of the productive chain (Lall, 2001; Pietrobelli, 1997).”
Cities and Regions Competing in the Global Economy: Knowledge and Local Development Policies (2007, background): “Covering fewer economies (sixty), the WCY analyzes a larger number (over 300) of criteria, grouped into four c̀ompetitiveness factors': economic performance, government efficiency, business efficiency, and infrastructure (for a detailed critique see Lall, 2001).”
The state of the world's bureaucracies (2006, unknown): “Lall is even extremely critical of the Global Competitiveness Report as a whole, describing it as biased, flawed, vague, and sometimes wrong (Lall 2001: 1501).”
Measuring technological capabilities at the country level: A survey and a menu for choice (2005, methodology): “Although it is beyond the scope of this article, WEF and UNIDO pay particular attention to other economic indicators (especially that of competitiveness) although their approaches differ substantially (for a comparison, see Lall, 2001b ).”