The Global Competitiveness Report series has since its first edition aimed to prompt policy-makers beyond short term growth and to aim for long-run prosperity. The 2020 special edition is dedicated to elaborating on the priorities for recovery and revival, and considering the building blocks of a transformation towards new economic systems that ...
Current activities in the region are organised in the following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania ...
At a Glance: The Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 2019 Rankings. Chapter 1: Global Findings. Chapter 2: Regional and Country Analysis. Chapter 3: Competitiveness, Equality and Sustainability—The Way Forward. Appendix A: The Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 Methodology and Technical Notes. Appendix B: The Executive Opinion Survey: The Voice of ...
Introduction. The deep economic recession triggered by COVID-19 continues to have profound economic and social consequences. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, unemployment rates have rapidly increased in most developing and advanced economies, and poverty rates have begun to rise again, reversing the gains achieved over the past few decades.
Executive Summary. The 2020 special edition of The Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) series comes out at a very difficult and uncertain historical moment. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has not only led to a global health crisis and deep economic recession—deeper than the downturn during the 2008–2009 financial crisis—but has ...
We want to express our gratitude to the core project team involved in the production of this report: Roberto Crotti and Kusum Kali Pal, as well as their colleagues who supported the development of the new concepts for future transformation: Silja Baller, Sophie Brown, Attilio di Battista, Guillaume Hingel, and Vesselina Stefanova Ratcheva.
Namibia, Mozambique and Eswatini have also improved significantly (2.5 percentage points or more), allowing them to jump up by several places in the global ranking. Within the four dimensions measured by the index, Sub-Saharan Africa has closed a significant part of its gender gaps in Health and Survival (97.3%), although slightly declining ...
Notably, seven countries (Madagascar, Ghana, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Liberia and Mali) have reduced their Educational Attainment gap between 1.5 and 4.7 percentage points. However, three countries (Guinea, Congo DRC and Chad) where the educational gender gap is larger have registered a stagnant performance and have yet to close 32% ...
The subindex is headed by Rwanda, South Africa and Mozambique, with Sierra Leonne, Burkina Faso and Nigeria towards the bottom. The increase in score derives from the growing share of women assuming parliamentary seats across the region.
The World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society is pleased to acknowledge and thank the following organizations as its valued Partner Institutes, without which the realization of The Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020 would not have been feasible:
41. This can be achieved either in a more direct way, banning open market repurchases altogether (as proposed by the recent “Reward Work Act”) or more mildly, by introducing closer supervision by stock market authorities (e.g. S.E.C.) with the possibility of charging companies that are found to manipulate the stock’s price (for more details on this, see for instance https://www.nytimes ...
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As the UN Assistant Emergency Relief Coordinator he also served as the special humanitarian envoy of the Secretary-General for crises in Mozambique and East Timor.He is currently serving as Senior Advisor in Myanmar. Ross Mountain (New Zealand) has until recently served as Assistant Secretary General, Deputy UN Special Coordinator/ Resident and ...