The Ladder of Competitiveness : How to Climb it.

League tables of national competitiveness give an easily comparable ranking of the winners and losers of global economic competition. But they leave a number of questions unanswered. Why are the "poor" countries four times less productive than the "rich" ones? Why are some rich countries twice as productive as others? How important is human capital compared with other factors such as financial capital or infrastructures? Using empirical data from over 50 countries, this book shows how even small differences in a number of factors combine to boost or block productivity. Governments need such in.  Read more...