Export performance and competitiveness in wood products in the Czech Republic and Austria

Verter, Nahanga; Grega, Libor

doi:10.32910/ep.70.5.4

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“…It has over 18,684 square kilometers of cultivable land, with one of Nigeria's most extensively irrigated lands. The city of Kano is a primary producer of groundnut in Nigeria, contributing significantly to the country being the largest producer in Africa, contributing over 30% of Africa's total groundnut production and the third (3rd) globally after China and India [33].…”

Section: Historical Development Of Kanomentioning

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Understanding the Challenges of 21st Century Urbanization in Northern Nigeria’s Largest City, Kano

Koko¹,

Bello²,

Sadiq³

2024

Sustainable Development

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Kano, the largest city in Northern Nigeria, has experienced tremendous and unprecedented urban growth since the late 10th Century, following the emergence of the city as one of the oldest and most prominent urban centers for Trans-Saharan trade that linked Sub-Saharan Africa with North Africa, Northern Arab, and other European countries. The city’s rapid urbanization is mainly attributed to the influx of people as a result of socio-economic trading activities. However, the inability of relevant government authorities to actively respond to the city’s rapid urbanization, coupled with the demographical and spatial expansion, has contributed to the enormous contemporary challenges. Therefore, the present study examined the various challenges faced due to the tremendous urbanization in Kano city, Nigeria. The study identified the city’s challenges to include infrastructure decay, environmental pollution, problem of urban mobility and traffic congestion, unemployment, and increased crime rates. It also analyzed the implementation of several strategies and initiatives of the relevant government authorities in tackling these problems while carefully recommending further solutions aimed at addressing these contemporary challenges. This is with a view of having a cosmopolitan city that continuously attracts the inflow of populace due to its socio-economic status without jeopardizing the city’s sustainable growth.

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Section: Historical Development Of Kanomentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Challenges of 21st Century Urbanization in Northern Nigeria’s Largest City, Kano

Koko¹,

Bello²,

Sadiq³

2024

Sustainable Development

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“…The factors of this transformation in the global competitiveness are correlated to the intense investments in the forest sector throughout the years, in addition to the fast growth of the Asian markets. Another factor that contributed to this change is the intensive forest activities in low productive cost regions such as south America (COELHO JUNIOR et al, 2018;HETEMAKI & HURMEKOSKI, 2016;SANTOS JÚNIOR et al, 2022;VERTER & GREGA, 2019).…”

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International competitiveness of exports of forest products

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This article analyzed the international competitiveness of exports of forest products from 2008 to 2018. The information is available in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the indicators used were: revealed comparative advantage (RCA), trade openness index (Oi) and the contribution to trade balance index (CTB). Results showed that the exportation of forest products are competitive, in addition gains in competitiveness have been observed by the RCA and in Europe, countries had losses in detriment of the financial crises and austerity measures adopted. All countries showed a low degree of openness by the Oi and had a comparative advantage by the CTB, except for China and Germany. It is concluded that the countries with bigger comparative advantages in the exportation of forest products were the ones that had contributed more for its commercial balance.

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“…The authors of several scientific studies have explored the possibilities of assessing the competitiveness of wood-based industries [23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Works focusing on the analysis of competitiveness in Slovakia and Czechia have found that comparative advantages are below the EU average and their level is steadily decreasing.…”

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Impacts of Foreign Trade on the Economy of Wood-Based Sectors Generating Different Levels of Value Added in the Slovak and Czech Republics

Sujová

Marcineková

Kupčák

2023

Forests

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Foreign trade belongs among the main sources of economic growth as classical theories of international trade affirm. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the impact of trade balance flows on sectors generating different value-added in the wood-based industries (WBI) of the Czech and Slovak Republics. The multivariate regression method (MLR) was applied to identify the relationship between foreign trade and economic indicators and also specific indicators assessing impacts of foreign trade on the economy of wood-based industries. The results showed that the performance of high value-added production is only slightly affected by foreign trade. It means that both monitored countries do not utilize raw wood so intensively that the positive effects of foreign trade are manifested. Growth in net exports represents a positive influence on the economy of the sector regardless of the value-added rate only if the increase in imports is smaller than in exports. The contribution of the study to existing knowledge is in using specific indicators evaluating trade impacts on the industry’s economy. The article provides new empirical insights into the influence of foreign trade balance flows on the economy of wood-based sectors with a different value-added rate.

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Export performance and competitiveness in wood products in the Czech Republic and Austria

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Understanding the Challenges of 21st Century Urbanization in Northern Nigeria’s Largest City, Kano

Understanding the Challenges of 21st Century Urbanization in Northern Nigeria’s Largest City, Kano

International competitiveness of exports of forest products

Impacts of Foreign Trade on the Economy of Wood-Based Sectors Generating Different Levels of Value Added in the Slovak and Czech Republics

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