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[Forbes News] The World's Most Competitive Countries

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The World's Most Competitive Countries Paul Maidment, 09.27.06, 6:00 AM ET Being a small European country with snow is conducive to economic growth. More correlation than causality, no doubt, but the three countries topping the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Competitiveness Report are Switzerland, Finland and Sweden--habitual winners all. Denmark, Singapore, the U.S., Japan, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. round out the top ten. OK, forget the snow, size and location. Soundly run government, being business-friendly and plowing back money into innovation, education and public health are more of what really matter. The WEF constitutes the folks who gather the great and the good to discuss the global economy on the ski slopes of Davos, Switzerland, each January. The organization compiles its annual competitiveness rankings (there is a separate one for business competitiveness) to pinpoint why some countries are able to grow consistently while others stagnate or see an erosion of living standards. At the bottom of the ranking of 125 industrialized and emerging countries, in worst to only slightly less bad order, are Angola, Burundi, Chad, Timor-Leste, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe--a gazetteer of economic blight. No prizes for guessing why Switzerland and some Nordic nations have consistently better long-term growth prospects than some of Africa’s most woeful countries. But what gives them the edge in the WEF's indexes over the U.S., their larger European neighbors and the East Asian tigers? All indexes reflect their components. This year the WEF has changed its methodology to give more weight to human capital and social factors that weigh on business in a way that its chief economist, Augusto Lopez-Claros, says reflects the global economy's evolution since the index was first conceived in 2001. Its three broad criteria--macroeconomy, institutions and technological readiness--have been expanded to nine broad measures that score a country for the quality of its institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomy, health and primary education, higher education and training, market efficiency, technological business sophistication and innovation.

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