Executive Summary

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Table 3: The Business Competitiveness Index

Country
United States
Finland
Germany
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Denmark
Japan
Netherlands
Singapore
Hong Kong SAR
France
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Austria
Taiwan
New Zealand
Iceland
Norway
Israel
Ireland
Malaysia
Korea
South Africa
Spain
Estonia
United Arab Emirates*
Chile
India
Slovenia
Tunisia
Portugal
Italy
Czech Republic
Lithuania
Thailand
Brazil
Slovak Republic
Bahrain*
Greece
Hungary
Jordan
Indonesia
Cyprus
Morocco
China
Costa Rica
Latvia
Malta
Namibia
Turkey
Mauritius
Jamaica
Mexico
Romania
Poland
Colombia
Trinidad and Tobago
Panama
Russian Federation
Botswana
Kenya
Ghana
El Salvador
Egypt*
Gambia*
Sri Lanka

BCI
ranking

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68

Company
operations and
strategy ranking

Quality of the
national business
environment ranking

2
7
1
5
4
8
9
3
6
13
15
10
19
11
16
14
12
20
17
23
18
22
28
21
24
25
34
32
33
30
27
43
42
26
31
37
36
29
41
53
40
48
54
38
59
45
39
35
51
60
63
44
49
52
46
61
47
58
55
66
62
73
56
71
65
57
70
69

2
1
5
6
7
4
3
11
9
8
10
16
12
19
13
17
20
15
18
14
21
22
23
28
25
27
24
26
29
32
33
30
31
43
37
35
36
44
39
34
42
38
40
46
41
45
47
50
48
49
51
55
54
53
56
57
64
61
62
58
60
52
63
59
65
68
66
67

Country
Ukraine
Philippines
Uganda*
Croatia
Pakistan
Argentina
Bulgaria
Peru
Uruguay
Zambia*
Vietnam
Dominican Republic
Nigeria*
Zimbabwe
Macedonia, FYR
Malawi
Serbia and Montenegro
Guatemala
Madagascar
Venezuela
Algeria
Tanzania
Mali*
Georgia
Bosnia and Hercegovina
Ecuador
Bangladesh
Mozambique
Honduras
Paraguay
Ethiopia
Nicaragua
Bolivia
Chad*
Angola*

BCI
ranking

69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103

Company
operations and
strategy ranking

Quality of the
national business
environment ranking

64
50
75
72
67
68
86
77
80
85
81
74
76
79
84
83
87
78
88
82
93
92
95
89
96
90
97
94
91
98
101
100
99
103
102

71
77
69
70
75
78
72
74
76
73
79
83
80
84
82
85
81
90
88
91
86
87
89
93
92
95
94
98
100
96
97
99
101
102
103

*Survey data for these countries have high within-country variance. Until the
reliability of survey responses improves, with future educational efforts and
improved sampling in these countries, their rankings should be interpreted with
caution.

(contd.)