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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المؤلف الرئيسي: Kabundi, Alain
مؤلفون آخرون: Nadal De Simone, Francisco
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/002
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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