Development Centre Studies The Ladder of Competitiveness How to Climb it

Tables of national competitiveness give an easily comparable ranking of the winners and losers of global economic competition. But they don't explain why the "e;poor"e; countries are four times less productive than the "e;rich"e; ones or why some rich countries are twice as productive as others. Using empirical data from over 50 countries, this book shows how even small differences in a number of...