Sanjaya Lall’s scientific contributions

... Competitiveness is a concept very discussed among academics and it has been applied to several levels of analysis; the most pertinent applications of it is at firm level because it refers to a comparative notion of competition or market gains, but it has also been broadly applied at the national level in last decades (Fagerberg, 1996;Nelson, 1993;Porter, 1985;Roessner et al., 1996). A general definition of competitiveness relates to productivity and growth of countries (Krugman, 1994) while the more tractable one focuses on the ability of a country to compete by exporting (Fagerberg, 1996;Lall, 2001). The globalization process has changed the markets functioning and also hierarchies, while technology has reshaped international firms, industries and trade; therefore, it can be assumed that the definition of national structural competitiveness is related to the ability to enhance collective techno-economic capacities in the world market-place what implies to adopt a relative or comparative notion of performance that is shaped by a diversity of influential factors. ...

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FDI and Technology as Levering Factors of Competitiveness in Developing Countries