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Country Analysis Framework
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Mode of Analysis
• View country as a unit much like a firm with goals, comparative advantages and measurable outcomes.
• More complicated as the goals are less obvious, constituencies more varied, and decision making less clear.
• Examine past & present and project into the future. oMust choose time frame of analysis to guide
focus.
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Three Parts
• Context • Strategy• Performance
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Context• Background & Resources• Players of the Game
oFirms: Corporate SectoroGovernment ActorsoNon-state Actors
• Rules of the GameoFormal Rules o Informal Rules
• International Dimension
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Background and Resources
Resources•Natural•Labor•Capital•Infrastructure•Technology
Context•Rules of the Game•Players
Background•History•Culture•Demographics•Geography
Austen, J.E., 1990, Managing in Development Economies
Strategy•Vision•Goals•Policies
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The game
• Players of the GameoGovernment Actors
oPolitical LeadersoGovernment Departments
oFirms: Corporate SectoroNon-state Actors
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Rules of the Game• Formal
– Constitution, – Type of Legal system– Property Rights
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Rules of the Game
• Informal– Unwritten practices– Business/work culture
· A highly insular and consensual business culture that is resistant to hostile mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and prefers to do business, especially M&A transactions, with familiar corporate partners;
2011 Investment Climate Statement - Japan
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Strategy
• Vision - Overall view of society• Ideology • Orientation
• Goals• Policies
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Performance
• Economic: GDP, Employment, Inflation
• Social: Income Distribution, Health, Education
• Political: Stability, Freedom• International: Balance of Payments
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Synthesis
• Construct a story that uses the different elements to describe the situation faced by the country.
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• No perfect system for describing a country’s situation. This system offers a straight-forward, easily comparable framework.
• Country-level approach may also be questioned. Any country has many individual actors which will each have their own objectives, strategies and performance measures.