RE: competitiveness index and New Zealand
Sept. 10, 1994 Nancy, I have heard it on TV, one of the network news; it did not indicated the source. I am puzzled too. If the United States is #1 in competitiveness, why can't the trade deficit doesn't come below the $100 billion mark? Cheers! Fikret Ceyhun Dept. of Econ, Univ. of North Dakota University Station, box 8369 Grand Forks, ND 58202 (701)777-3348 voice;(701)777-5099 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail On Fri, 9 Sep 1994, Breen, Nancy wrote: I don't know how it's ranked, but the U.S. is #1 this year Nancy Breen National Institutes of Health. -- From: pen-l To: breenn Subject: competitiveness index and New Zealand Date: Friday, September 09, 1994 7:15AM A friend informed me that New Zealand had ranked ninth on the most recent world competitiveness scale. Does anyone know what this is and how it is calculated? Mark Laffey
RE: competitiveness index and New Zealand
Several people have asked how the U.S. comes in first in competitiveness. Well, there is an article on the "competitiveness index" in this week's Economist (Sept. 10th). Here the index is said to be based on "conventional economic statistics and businessmen's opinions of their countries' strengths and weaknesses." So it's not exactly pure hard data. The article also gives some information on where the data are found. Walter Daum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Mathematics City College New York, NY 100031
re: competitiveness index and New Zealand
The World Competitiveness Report is published by the International Institute for Management abd Development in Lausanne, Switzerland and the World Economic Forum in Geneva. It ranks countries across a range of categories: domestic econ. strength, internationalization, government policy permitting "business freedom", infrastructure, management etc. Carbaugh, _International Economics_, 5th ed, the text I'm using for my trade course ranks New Zealand on the composite index at 18 out of 23 nations for 1991 (8th ranked for government keeping its hands off business). The Wall ST Journal ran a piece on the 1994 report in this week's Sept. 7 issue, p. A3. NZ wasn't mentioned but the U.S. is number one again (!), Japan dropping to #3 while newcomer Singapore climbs to #2. (Beginning to sound like Kasey Kasem on American Top 40). [I'm NOT promoting this stuff, just answering the original question.] Cheers, Brent |~~~| Brent McClintock| | Economics | | Carthage College| THERE IS NO WEALTH | Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140| BUT LIFE| USA | | Phone: (414) 551-5852 | John Ruskin | Fax: (414) 551-6208 | | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ~
