Recent French Export Performance : Is There a Competitiveness Problem? /

Recently, the export performance of France relative to its own past and relative to a major trading partner, Germany, deteriorated. That deterioration seems related to the geographical destination and product composition of trend exports. Faced with an increase in unit labor costs or in its terms of...

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主要作者: Kabundi, Alain
其他作者: Nadal De Simone, Francisco
格式: 雜誌
語言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
叢編:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/002
在線閱讀:Full text available on IMF
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