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The Comparative Analysis of Competitiveness of the Visegrad Group
Šteflová, Šárka ; Klosová, Anna (advisor) ; Dubravská, Pavla (referee)
The thesis deals with the analysis of competitiveness of the Visegrad Group. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the competitiveness of the Visegrad countries - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The countries will be examined in today's competitive environment within the Visegrad Group and the European Union. The analyze is based on data available from public sources and statistics. The work is divided into three chapters. The first part is devoted to the theoretical definition of competitiveness and methods of how to measure the competitiveness of the state. The second chapter introduces Visegrad Group and its common characteristics. The another part of the work is focused on the macroeconomic indicators - inflation, government debt and GDP per capita. The foreign trade and territorial and commodity structure of exports in the last ten years are also examined in this part. In the third chapter there is an analysis of the competitiveness based on investigation of labor productivity, labor costs, expenditures on research and development and tertiary education. In conclusion there is an evaluation of competitiveness of Visegrad Group based on the Global Competitiveness Index in 2011-2012.
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Developement of competitiveness of United States of Mexico in international comparison
Francisci, Lucia ; Plchová, Božena (advisor) ; Halík, Jaroslav (referee)
The main discussed problem of this thesis is to find out how competitive United States of Mexico are in worldwide economy. In other words, how competitive United States of Mexico is in comparison with another countries. The first part of this work concludes theoretical knowledge what the competitiveness consists of. The purpose of this part is to understand the competitiveness as a discussed problem of nowadays. The second part of this thesis describes the development of Mexican economy from the year of its independence to nowadays with a focus mostly on the origin of Mexican financial crisis and the North American Free Trade agreement signed by the governments of Canada, United States and Mexico. The third analytical part includes the analysis of the competitiveness of Mexican economy through indicators and markers determined by World economic forum in Geneva, more specifically through the Index of global competitiveness. This part also compares Mexican economy with the BRIC countries of similar stage of newly advanced economic development in the future that refers to Brazil, Russia, India and China. The fourth part describes the analysis of the competitiveness of Mexican economy from the regional point of view. This part recognizes tree main macro regions and description of industry in specific states. The fifth part shows data for the ease of doing business rank (out of 183 economies)in United States of Mexico with the complete analysis of reforms and other improvements taken by United States of Mexico to help more the entrepreneurship.
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