This site houses the on-line version of the World Competitiveness Yearbook published by IMD (International Institute for Management Development). The Yearbook aims to "capture in a single index the capacity of a country's economic structure to promote growth." The index of competitiveness is based on 244 indicators of international competitiveness which are grouped into eight factors: domestic economy, internationalization, government, finance, infrastructure, management, science and technology, and people. A total of 46 countries consisting of the 28 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and 18 newly industrializing and emerging countries are ranked. At the site, the overall rankings, rankings in each of the factors and individual country profiles are available.
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