Competitiveness and Institutional Quality in the Greater Mekong Subregion

Sarah Mueller
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Sarah Mueller: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

No 307, Working Paper Series from United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Abstract: This paper provides a short overview on two major approaches to competitiveness, namely a microeconomic approach that describes competitiveness as a firm-level approach and an institutional approach that takes a broader view and explains competitiveness as an institutions-based phenomenon, focusing on the Government's role to create a conducive environment for trade. Choosing the institutional approach to competitiveness, the paper then proceed to analyze the competitiveness of the countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion, drawing from a large source of data and indicators as well as by analyzing other related aspects of a competitiveness-conducive institutional framework. Lastly, it provides a number of suggestions on how to improve certain aspects of the Greater Mekong Subregion's competitiveness.

Keywords: competitiveness; microeconomic; conducive institutional framewrok; GMS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2007-05
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