A politically compliant AP reporter, by the name of Bradley S. Klapper wrote on May 21, 2010 that “Singapore and Hong Kong are the world’s most competitive economies, an annual survey said Friday.”The “survey” cited by Klapper comes from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) which is located in Switzerland. IMD defines itself as “the global meeting place for executives from all over the world.”
IMD’s Professor Stéphane Garelli (a man) leads the team which publishes the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook – in IMD’s words, “the most comprehensive and reputed study in the field of the competitiveness of nations.”
IMD report compares the competitiveness of sixty-one countries and regions using 312 criteria.
I don’t know what these 312 criteria may be, but I do know that Singapore, for one, is not one of “the world’s most competitive economies.” Full Story
