Romania

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• Romania
• the Imperative of Competitiveness
• Presentation by
• Owaise Saadat
• Country Manager
• World Bank Romania Office
• December 2, 2004
• National Institute of Economic Research

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"You can fall asleep to dream or you can dream to
change the world"
Frantz Fanon, (1925-1961)
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Growth Competitiveness Index (GCI) rankings and
2003 comparisons
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Country Tables according to Doing business in
2005 report
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BenchmarkingEmployment Regulation Europe and
Central Asia Region Compared to Global Best
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Benchmarking Registering PropertyEurope and
Central Asia Region Compared to Global Best
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BenchmarkingLegal Rights IndicatorEurope and
Central Asia Region Compared to Global Best
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BenchmarkingContract Enforcement Europe and
Central Asia Region Compared to Global Best
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BenchmarkingBankruptcy Europe and Central Asia
Region Compared to Global Best 
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Paradigm Shift in Thinking
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PRECONDITIONS FOR CHANGE

• Is there sufficient tension to motivate people
  to change?
• Are people receptive to new ways of doing things?
• Is there knowledge necessary to change available?
• Does the leadership have a clear and compelling
  moral purpose?
• Is the leadership capable of facilitating
  change? 

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A message until we meet next!
" The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but
in escaping from the old ones, which ramify for
those brought up as most of us have been, into
every corner of our minds"
John Maynard Keynes (1936)