The Competitiveness Advantage of Exports  in Countries of South East Asia

A Thesis submitted by:

Haeder Mohammed Hassan Talib Al- Maliki

To the Council of the College of Administration and Economics / University of Karbala, as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master in Economics Science

Supervised by:

Dr. Mohsin Abdullah Hassan Al- Rajehi

      The achievement of competitiveness has become a strategic goal for all States which aims to achieve economic development, competitiveness implies economic efficiency.                                                                        

Has made Southeast Asia a great success in gaining competitiveness, as exports account for a large share of world exports, but, despite the successes achieved by countries in Southeast Asia, but some of these countries suffer from low competitiveness of their exports compared to the rest of Southeast Asia. so trying this research study the strengths and weaknesses in the competitiveness of these countries and the knowledge of which is distinguished highly competitive and the countries that suffer from low competitive ability compared to the rest of Southeast Asia.
Where research is divided into three chapters, the first chapter dealt with the conceptual framework of competitiveness and Chapter II, general features of the economies of Southeast Asia and the third chapter dealing with analysis of the competitiveness of the economies of Southeast Asia, in the forth quarter and the purpose of demonstrating the research hypothesis is amodel of a standard to measure the competitiveness of export in the countries of Southeast Asia.                            
And finally reached the conclusions and recommendations.