FSU vs Non-FSU Impacts for Developing European SME Firm Productivity-Links to Critical Minerals Manufacturing

Abstract

Fiona Stewart Vidler MBA MSc MLIBF

This research contributes insights into the world scarcity and race for investment into precious minerals in every aspect of modern life, without it would return to the dark ages 2020s. Increases in investment for extraction relate to manufacturing, so lead to increasing accelerating productivity outcomes. An expanding futurist field, thought to potentially be as corrupt risky as ‘big oil.’ The research shows differences in control of corruption perception indices, Transparency International clean/corrupt scores, regulatory quality, exporting need to improve and highlights FDI (foreign direct investment) and productivity gaps. The third decade independence 2008/9 – 2019 reveals differences between FSU and nonFSU, surprising as after thirty years still show differences, predictive in hindsight of turbulent 2020s in economic financial destabilization with global relevance impact, where SMEs show fastest signs of growth or barriers. These are assessed here in terms of productivity outcomes (output per worker as seen in the world of labor).

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