MOTORIZATION INDEX AS A CAUSAL FACTOR OF NATIONAL ECONOMIES' POTENTIAL COMPETITIVENESS WITH THE GDP PER CAPITA CRITERION

In our study of the causal connection between the criterion and factors of national economies' competitiveness, the casual significance of motorization index (i.e. ratio the number of vehicles to the number of population in country) has been proved. As a particular criterion of national economies' competitiveness, authors took the indicator of GDP per capita, calculated at purchasing power parity (PPP). Using this criterion, rating of national economies' potential competitiveness has been built for any country to increase the real and potential competitiveness of the national economy. Increasing the potential competitiveness requires funding of capital-intensive logistic projects that could be implemented in the long term (over 5 years).