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Konkurencyjność krajów Unii Europejskiej w międzynarodowym handlu usługami
The competitiveness of the EU Countries in international trade in services

Author(s): Małgorzata Kołodziejczak, Karolina Pawlak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Economy, Supranational / Global Economy, International relations/trade, Tourism, Socio-Economic Research, Transport / Logistics
Published by: Główny Urząd Statystyczny
Keywords: services trade; competitiveness; international statistics

Summary/Abstract: This article presents a typology of EU countries based on criteria of the exports value in the different types of services and their participation in the total value of services exported. An analysis of the competitive position ex post of the European Union states in the Community trade of services was prepared based on a constructed typology. The study of competitiveness takes into account the transport and tourism (the largest share of turnover) services as well as communications, construction, insurance, financial, IT and information services. The typology of EU countries was created using Ward's method, with a group of hierarchical agglomeration clustering methods.

  • Issue Year: 58/2013
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 46-56
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish