The World's Most Competitive Countries

Technological advances have created new opportunities for businesses against the background of an increasingly complex global economy, while reductions in the cost of transport and communication are making location less important, spurring companies to move operations to lower cost environments.This, in turn, has made governments far more sensitive to the need to create a friendly business climate, supportive of private sector activity. http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/26/global-competitiveness-report-biz_cx_pm_0926gci_land.html?partner=weekly_newsletter http://images.forbes.com/media/pdfs/2006/gci/ExecutiveSummary.pdf

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