Global Competitiveness Report
Recommended supplement
This is an amazing, big book (approximately 800 pages) that compares nations on the basis of their competitiveness in almost any category you can think of; for example, "Willingness to Delegate" (Sweden's best; Russia's the worst). Since it first developed and launched the World Competitiveness Report in 1980, the World Economic Forum has been in the forefront of the analysis of country competitiveness. As the New York Times noted, the Global Competitiveness Report "blends the idea of competitiveness to fit modern growth theory." According to its editors, the Global Competitiveness Report 1997 is the most authoritative annual audit on competitiveness. It provides critical information to help corporate and public policy decision makers. Its exclusive methodology combines hard quantitative data recorded by international and national organizations with a worldwide executive opinion survey to assess 53 countries on hundreds of competitiveness factors. By combining quantitative and qualitative data, the Global Competitiveness Report gives you valuable guidance on both current conditions and future opportunities in the countries analyzed. The Global Competitiveness Report is the only analysis that rigorously confines itself to those criteria that have a demonstrated impact on the ability of an economy to sustain growth.
The data tables are constructed on the basis of eight factors of competitiveness:
- Domestic economic strength
- Internationalization
- Government
- Finance
- Infrastructure
- Management
- Science and technology
- People
The World Economic Forum, according to its leadership, is the foremost international membership organization integrating leaders from business, government, and academia into a partnership committed to improving the state of the world. "Entrepreneurship in the global public interest" is the motto of the foundation. The World Economic Forum has 1,000 corporate members from among the world's most successful global companies. The not-for-profit foundation, founded in 1971, is independent, impartial, and tied to no political, partisan, or regional interests, and is under the legal supervision of the Swiss federal authorities.
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Global Competitiveness Report
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