This term paper on hand analyses the competitiveness of five African nations.
Depending on the data from the WEF, five African nations have been chosen.
These are in detail South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius and Egypt. The
main goal of this paper was to analyze these countries in their competitiveness
and benchmark them as an example for other African nations. Therefore this
paper first gives an overview on the current political situation, the geographical
conditions and the historic background to each country. Each country then is
analyzed in the primary, secondary and tertiary sector and gives details on the
main economical challenges of each country. The benchmarking deals with the
performance in different categories which are Government Efficiency, Business
Efficiency, Economic Performance and Infrastructure.
The paper on hand comes to the conclusion that the selected five countries are
indeed very competitive countries within the African continent. They all have dealt
with problematic fields of their economy in the past in their individual way and thus
improved their performance. The majority of these five countries still have to work
harder on these problematic areas to reach a worldwide competitive level, some of
them have already reached this level to some extent.
The necessary background information and statistics have been taken from the
World Economic Forum (WEF) and various reliable internet resources. The paper
on hand analyses the data within the past 16 years or more, depending on the
question analysed.
Content
DECLARATION OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
ILLUSTRATION INDEX
TABULATIONS INDEX
ABBREVIATION INDEX
1. SELECTING THE FIVE MOST COMPETITIVE COUNTRIES IN AFRICA
2. INTRODUCTION TO THE COUNTRIES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS
2.1 A COUNTRY PROFILE ON EGYPT
2.2 A COUNTRY PROFILE ON BOTSWANA
2.3 A COUNTRY PROFILE ON MAURITIUS
2.4 A COUNTRY PROFILE ON NAMIBIA
2.5 A COUNTRY PROFILE ON SOUTH AFRICA
3. ANALYSIS OF THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE FIVE AFRICAN NATIONS
3.1 DEFINITION OF COMPETITIVENESS
3.2 COMPETITIVENESS OF BOTSWANA
3.2.1 South African customs union
3.2.2 Agriculture
3.2.3 AIDS and their influence on the human capital
3.2.5 Sector
3.2.6 Tourism
3.2.7 Future prospects
3.3 COMPETITIVENESS OF SOUTH AFRICA
3.3.2 Primary Sector
3.3.3 Secondary Sector
3.3.5 Visions of the future
3.3.6 Infrastructure
3.3.7 Soccer world championship 2010 in South Africa
3.4 THE COMPETITIVENESS OF EGYPT
3.4.1 Agriculture
3.4.2 Industry (The industrial policy)
3.4.3 Energy
3.4.4 Transport
3.4.5 Trade (Foreign Trade)
3.5 THE COMPETITIVENESS OF NAMIBIA
3.5.1 Primary Sector
2.6 THE COMPETITIVENESS OF MAURITIUS
3.6.1 Financial Services
4. BENCHMARKING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE FIVE SELECTED NATIONS
4.1 GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
4.1.1 Public Finance
4.1.2 Institutional Framework
4.1.2.1 The Cost of Capital
4.1.2.2The country credit rating
4.1.3 Openness
4.2 BUSINESS EFFICIENCY
4.2.1 PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY
4.3 ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
4.3.1 Domestic Economy
4.3.2 International Trade
4.4 BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE
4.4.1 Technological Infrastructure
4.4.4 Scientific Infrastructure
4.4.5 Health
4.4.6 Education
5. THE INFRASTRUCTURE CHAIN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
LIST OF LITERATURE
LIST OF ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
APPENDIX
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