National and International Economic Competitiveness: Towards Economic Growth and Sustainability -Intensive Full-Time (3 Months) Postgraduate Diploma -Progressing to MSc
Master
In Cairo (Egypt), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Al Farwānīyah (Kuwait)
*Indicative price
Original amount in GBP:
£ 45,000
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Master
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3 Months
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Suitable for: This programme is designed for: Managers. Importers. Exporters. Trade Ministers and Undersecretaries. Other Trade Officials. Economists. Industrialists. Industrial Advisors. Contract Managers. Audit Commission Members. Management Accountants. Corporate Executives. Others interested in understanding National and International -Competitiveness Issues
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Course programme
Module 1
- Fundamental Microeconomic Factors and their relevance to Macroeconomic Development
- Infrastructural Development
- Inflation and Money Supply
- Controlling ‘M1’
- Gearing Monetary and Fiscal Policies
- Economic ‘Kick-start’: Strategic Imperatives
- The Pros and Cons of High and Low Currency Value
- Currency Alignment
- Stabilizing Currency Value: State Control vs. Market Determinants
Economic Competitiveness: An Introduction
Module 2
- Competitiveness: A conceptual Exploration
- Contextualising Competitiveness
- National Competitiveness
- Regional Competitiveness
- International Competitiveness
- Models of Competition
- Monopoly
- Duopoly
- Oligopoly
- Nationalisation vs. Privatisation: A Deconstruction of Their Microeconomic and
- Macroeconomic Implications
- Business Internal Growth Pattern
- Business External Growth: Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures – Who Benefits?
- Establishing Competition Rules
- Monitoring ‘Internal’ Competition
- Conglomerate Growth and Influence
- Globalisation and National Significance
Knowledge Economy, Rural and Suburban Development as Contributors to
Economic Competitiveness
Module 3
- Creating a Viable Education System: ‘6; 3; 3; 4’ and Other Models
- Agricultural and Rural Development: Key Success Factors
- Human Resource Development: Developing An Effective Strategy
- Skill Development: Creating a Workable National Standard
- Workforce Development: Exemplifying Investors In People (IIP)
- Regional Development: Developing Crucial Partnerships
- Environmental Protection and Infrastructure
Dumping and Its Effect on National Economic Infrastructure
Module 4
- The Value of International Trade to Importing and Exporting Countries
- International Trade and Capacity Building
- Export Trade and Foreign Reserve
- Domestic markets, government subsidies and ‘duties’
- Export Platforms and the determination of domestic market
- A Review of the General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade (GATT)
- The World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its perceived role in the promotion of world trade
- Dumping in Practice: A Practical Determinant
- Forms and Rationalisation of Subsidies
- Conceptualising Anti-Dumping
- Contextualising Anti-Subsidy
An Analysis of the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 {Anti-Dumping Agreement (ADA)}.
Module 5
- The ADA Agreement
- Interpreting the ADA
- Difference between ‘Requirement’ and ‘Provision’
- Predatory dumping
- Cyclical dumping
- Market expansion dumping
- State-trading dumping
- Strategic dumping
- Determining Dumping
- Actionable Dumping
- Constitution and Function of the WTO ADA Panel
- The Appellate Body of the WTO
- Determination of ‘Injury’ under ADA
- ‘Causal Link’
Hypothesising, Investigating and Reporting Dumping
Module 6
- Establishing a Dumping Hypothesis
- Reporting Procedure
- Designing a research to test ‘Dumping Hypothesis’
- Reporting the ‘Alternative Hypothesis’ to WTO style
- Testing the Null Hypothesis’
- Reporting Findings of Investigation to WTO
- Determining whether dumping has caused injury
Anti-Dumping Remedy, The Sunset Review and Beyond
Module 7
- Devising Effective Anti-dumping Remedies
- Focusing on WTO provisions and requirements
- Data recording relevant to Countervailing measures
- Disseminating information to Industrialists and other relevant parties, relevant to ADA and
- heir role in countervailing measures suspension and sunset review
- Conducting a Sunset Review
- Beyond the sunset review
- What after countervailing measure suspension
- Formulating anti-dumping policy and strategy, within the ADA
The Stock Exchange and Commodity Exchange As key Elements of
Economic Attractiveness
Module 8
- Stock Markets and Stock Exchanges: Issues Associated With Their Operation and
- Ownership
- Free Stock Exchanges vs. Controlled Stock Exchanges
- Government Borrowing Instruments
- Public-Private Partnerships; An Effectiveness Analysis
- The Futures Market and Its Economic Implications
- Stock Exchange Indices and the International Interpretation
- Factors Affecting Stock Exchange Indices
The Importance of Financial Risk Management In Improving and Maintaining
Economic Attractiveness
Module 9
- Risk: A Working Hypothesis
- Defining Risk – Generally
- Financial Risk: A Plausible Definition
- Financial Risk in an Organisational Setting
- Financial Risk and ‘Market Dynamics’
- Liquidity Risk
- Operating Risk
- Fraud Risk
- Settlement Risk
- Corporate Strategy and Risk Management
- The Currency Derivatives Market
- Financial Risk and Unpredictability: Uncontrollable Environmental Issues
- Asset Behaviour and Pricing Implications
- Credit and Counterparty Risk
- The Legal and Political Risk Environments
- Risk as an Economic Factor
- Technological Risk Factor
- Risk associated with Socio-Cultural Change
- Financial Risk Settings: A Meta-Analytical Exploration
- Risk in Financial Institutions
- Banking Risk
- Risk and the Currency Market
- Risk and the Equity Market
- Futures Market Risk
- Financial Exposure As Risk
- Economic Exposure
- Transaction Exposure
- Translation Exposure
- Calculating Risk in Financial Exposure
- Risk Management: A Conceptual and Statistical Meta-Analysis
- Conducting A Risk Assessment
- Managing Risk with Forward Contracts
- Financial methods of measuring Risk
- Quantifying financial risks.
- Managing The Interest Rate Derivatives Market
- Managing equity risk
- dentifying and measuring Currency Risk
- Managing Financial Exposure Risk
- Managing currency Risk
- Sensitivity Analysis As Risk Management
- Managing Risk with SWAPS:
- Statistical Analysis as a Risk Management Instrument
- nterpreting Statistical Data
- Probability and Normal Distribution
- Calculating statistics from actual data
- Understanding Statistical Significance
- Making Sense of Chi-squared Distribution
- Using Software to analyse data
- Using PESTEL as a Tool to Risk Management
National and International Economic Competitiveness: Towards Economic Growth and Sustainability -Intensive Full-Time (3 Months) Postgraduate Diploma -Progressing to MSc
*Indicative price
Original amount in GBP:
£ 45,000