The Costs to the UK of Language Deficiencies as a Barrier to UK Engagement in Exporting: A Report to UK Trade and Investment

James Foreman-Peck; Yi Wang

The Costs to the UK of Language Deficiencies as a Barrier to UK Engagement in Exporting: A Report to UK Trade and Investment

James Foreman-Peck^*, Yi Wang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Abstract

The report suggests that because of poor language skills, trade by UK companies in 2006 was lower than it might otherwise have been in Brazil, Russia, India, China as well as with France, Germany and Japan.

The research concluded that language skills exert two critical impacts on exporting:

being able to communicate in the same language as potential trade partners makes a firm more likely to be an exporter
more aware of the barriers created by cultural factors .

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 9 May 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

SMEs
International trade
Export
Language barriers

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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-costs-to-the-uk-of-language-deficiencies-as-a-barrier-to-uk-engagement-in-exporting

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