According to Brazil's FIESP (Federation of industries of the State of São Paulo) report on world competitiveness and its indicators, Brazil is not getting more competitive in the world.
The report assesses data collected for 43 countries, which represent 95% of the world's GDP over a period of eight years (1997-2004) from organizations like the World Bank, the UN, the world economic Forum and even the CIA. Without surprise, the United States and Japan come at the top of the list with values of 93.3 and 77 respectively, while Argentina is number one in Latin America with a note of 38.8. Brazil, however, with only 21.6 figures among the six most badly placed countries (38th place). It is only first to the Philippines (16.1), Colombia (15.0), Turkey (14.4), India (11.5) and Indonesia (7.6).
The countries are classified according to four levels of competitiveness: "high", "satisfactory", "average" and "low". The two best Latin-American countries are Argentina and Chile (of course!), coming in the third "average" category, together with countries like the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and Portugal as well as China and Russia. Germany, France and the United Kingdom come in the second category described as "satisfactory", while the US, Japan, Sweden, Norway and Singapore top the list.
The factors taken into account in the study relate to the country's economy, the government, the capital, the infrastructures, technology development, the international trade, the companies and the human capital. The Federation stresses that there is "a clear relationship between the indicator of competitiveness and the per capita income of a country, measured in purchasing power parity in dollars". In addition the most competitive countries are those which show the highest level of the UN's human development index.
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