The Global Competitiveness Report 1999

by World Economic Forum

• ISBN13: 9780195138191
• ISBN10: 0195138198
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Since 1979 the World Economic Forum, a foundation based in Geneva, has produced annual reports on the relative competitiveness of countries (the term "country" as used in this report covers well-defined, geographically self-contained areas that are not states but for which statistical data are maintained on a separate and independent basis), tracing the extraordinary development of the world economy during the last twenty years. The Global Competitiveness Report uses a research-based Competitiveness Index in which rankings of relevant economies are given on a multitude of business and economic factors. From its inception, the Report has furnished specific competitive information on the world's key economies (59 this year), now presented with two page profiles for each economy. These profiles provide: major performance indicators; each economy's rank in competitiveness; and highlights of particular strengths and weaknesses. Each year the Report becomes an ever more refined analytical tool for exploring the exponential expansion of interconnections in our global economy.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(1)
Professor Klaus Schwab
Competitiveness rankings	8	(92)
The year in review	14	(16)
Jeffrey D Sachs
Andrew M Warner
Microeconomic competitiveness: findings from the 1999 Executive Survey	30	(24)
Michael E Porter
Innovative capacity and prosperity: the next competitiveness challenge	54	(12)
Michael E Porter
Gregory C Bond
Are you underpaid?	66	(16)
Andrew M Warner
Competitiveness and globality	82	(4)
Macha Levinson
How competitive is Europe's labor?	86	(10)
Horst Siebert
Methodology	96	(4)
Andrew M Warner
Country profiles	100	(122)
Data	222	(116)
Notes and sources	338