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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Global Competitiveness Report names top countries

from today's Business Week Europe Insider news (10/23):

October 22, 2008, 12:51PM EST text size: TT

Top Countries in Global Competitiveness
Despite this year's global market turmoil, many of the same countries, including the U.S., remain atop the World Economic Forum ranking

By Matt Mabe

"The global economy has been under threat for more than a year, and events in recent months have taken matters to a crisis stage. But judging by the World Economic Forum's annual Global Competitiveness Report, you would hardly know it. So far the financial meltdown has had little effect on the relative competitiveness of the world's most advanced countries, according to the ranking.

Of the record 134 countries surveyed this year, the majority at the top of the list remain European, while the U.S. continues to hold on to the No. 1 spot and Canada squeezes into the top 10. As in previous years, Singapore and Japan are the only Asian countries included at the top of the list, though Hong Kong comes close, at No. 11." ...

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