Ciencias de la economia

Alonso Salazar 902459 24-03-2011
Iram Valdez Leyva 957592
Celine Steelandt 1291746
Marie Millet 1293117
Mertin Figueroa 957643



Competitividad y Geoeconómica

PANAMA

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Table of contents




1 Strengths and weaknesses 2


1.1 Culture Attitudes and Values 2


1.2 Social cohesion 21.3 Factor Endowments 2


1.4 Industrial Organization 2


1.5 Government Leadership 2


2 Opportunities and threats 2


2.1 Panama’s opportunities 2


2.2 Panama’s threats: 2


3 National Trust 2


4 Sources 2






Strengths and weaknesses




|  |  |PANAMA|
|  |Importance Weight|Major Strenght |Minor Strength|Neutral Factor|Minor Weakness |Major Weakness |
|Attitude Toward Saving |12 |  |  |x |  |  |
| |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|Cultural Homogeneity |20 |x |  |  |  |  |
|Factor Endowments |  |  |  |  |  |  ||Human Capital |12 |  |  |x |  |  |
|Age distribution of population |12 |  |  |x |  |  |
|Industrial Organization |  |  |  | |  |  |
|Cooperative norms |16 |  |x |  |  |  |
|Industry Specialization |12 |  |  |x |  |  |
|  |  | |  |  |  |  |







1 Culture Attitudes and Values



• Culture of productivity

Productivity in a country means that its resources are being use effectively. Technically, productivity is the ratio of output to input.1 It is a measure of how an economy or a business uses inputs (ex. labor or capital) toproduce outputs (good and services).

- GDP

|Year |GDP - real growth rate |Rank |Percent Change |Date of Information |
|2005 |6.00 % |54 |46.34 % |2004 est. |
|2007 |8.10 % |30 |26.56 %|2006 est. |
|2009 |9.20 % |15 |-17.86 % |2008 est. |
|2011 |7.50 % |19 |


|2005 |8354.017|8.10 % |
|2006 |9202.753 |10.16 % |
|2007 |10433.324 |13.37 % |
|2008 |11532.381...