Robocare’s agricultural drones are being used by farmers in Tunisia to identify which plants are diseased or need watering for efficient use of resources. Here’s more.
Education Tour. The tour project addresses the issue of limited educational and skill development opportunities for children from underprivileged states in Tunisia. This issue is rooted in poverty and income inequality, which has led to disparities in access to education and career opportunities between different socio-economic groups in the ...
Global results and time to parity. The global gender gap score in 2023 for all 146 countries included in this edition stands at 68.4% closed. Considering the constant sample of 145 countries covered in both the 2022 and 2023 editions, the overall score changed from 68.1% to 68.4%, an improvement of 0.3 percentage points compared to last year ...
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 ...
The United Arab Emirates is top scorer in the Middle East subregion, while Egypt is the top scorer in North Africa. In 2020, Qatar (43rd) and Tunisia (80th) were most dependent on T&T for GDP.
The second-best performer is the United Arab Emirates at 120th, followed by Kuwait (122nd) and Tunisia (124th). Seven of the 10 countries with the largest gender gaps in the world are from the MENA region, including Iraq and Yemen, which are, respectively, penultimate and last in the ranking of 153 countries.
Only one economy, the United Arab Emirates, ranks among the top 25 economies globally, and three economies (Israel, Tunisia and Egypt) have closed between 20% and 22.7% of their Political Empowerment gaps so far. All other economies in the region fall below 90th position in the subindex ranking, with only 15.1% (or less) of their gaps closed.
The Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020 series has, since its first edition, aimed to move focus beyond the growth-only paradigm and has been central at pointing out the need for public-private collaboration.The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) contained in the report has continued to evolve along with the latest economic thinking, the needs of society and technological ...
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.
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 also created a climate of profound uncertainty about the future outlook.
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 ...
In other parts of the world, like in Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Tunisia, the risks are much higher. The impacts of tighter financial conditions will build over time, and pressures on fiscal balances will rise.
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:
Tunisia; Turkey; Uganda; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom ; Uruguay; Venezuela; Viet Nam; Yemen; Zambia; Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama; Sierra Leone and Liberia; Infographics
Samdech Techo Hun Sen | 世界经济论坛. BA in Politics, Cambodia; 1991, PhD in Political Science, National Political Academy, Hanoi. Formerly: part of movement which liberated Cambodia in 1975; 1977, led movement aimed at liberating Cambodia and its people from genocidal regime; 1978, Founding Member, United Front, National Salvation of ...