Measuring international competitiveness: Experience from East Asia

Applied Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1383-1391

  Manzur, Meher ^a   Wong, Wing Keung ^b   Chee, Inn Chau ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; EXCHANGE RATE; PURCHASING POWER PARITY;

(EAST); ASIA;

EID: 0032729142     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368499323265     Document Type: Article

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