Global competitiveness
The World Economic Forum has a new set of 'global competitiveness indicators' out (warning - pdf). Finland, then the US, are top. The UK is in 11th. It's not worth taking them too seriously -- you'd need to find some from the early 1990s and see whether they had any predictive power above the obvious before doing that.But the subsectors make some interesting reading.
Technoloy - US, Taiwan, Finland. The UK is in 18th.
In fact at this point it's worth taking it less seriously. To paraphrase what John Kay noted about an earlier version, how seriously can you take an index of technology in which France is behind Hungary and Slovakia?
Public institutions - Denmark, Iceland, Finland. UK does well here in 7th.
Economic environment - Singapore, Norway, Finland. UK in 8th.
Business Competitive Index (this is actually a separate index) - US, Finland and Germany. UK in 5th.
posted by Matthew @ 10/15/2004 09:51:00 AM
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