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The World Competitiveness Yearbook: SA’s ranking – better or worse?
Answer: Both by Steuart Pennington In this newsletter I will do two things: First, I will track our improvements and our slippages over the past five years; Second, I will compare how we do against...
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SA’s Global Competitiveness in Africa – Is our lunch being eaten?
by Steuart Pennington Wesley Lynch, CEO, REALMDIGITAL (http://www.realmdigital.co.za/) wrote on our blog recently Another area on which we’ve been pinning our hopes, our clichéd status of gateway into...
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South African Global Competitiveness – Slipping or Sliding?
by Steuart Pennington This year South Africa’s Global Competitiveness ranking out of 144 countries slipped from 50th to 52nd. Paradoxically, in the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2012 our ranking has...
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There are two South Africas
The three articles we at South Africa – the Good News have written over the past month on our ‘Political, Social and Economic prospects for 2013 and Beyond’ have drawn considerable comment. In this...
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SA’s Global Rankings – Part 3: Some light at the end of the tunnel
by Steuart Pennington The World Competitiveness Yearbook, ranking the world’s top 60 countries on the basis of available information, has just pronounced that SA’s ranking has fallen by 3 places from...
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South Africa’s Global Competitiveness 2013 – Good news and bad news
by Steuart Pennington This year, South Africa’s Global Competitiveness ranking out of 148 countries slipped from 52nd to 53rd. In the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2013 our ranking dropped three...
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True or False? SA’s Global Competitiveness in Africa is giving way to...
by Steuart Pennington It’s official, South Africa has now been overtaken by Mauritius in the Global Competitiveness report. Mauritius is now ranked 45th up from 54th last year. We are ranked 53rd, down...
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The 2014 Global Competitiveness Report – Bad news firstly, good news...
South Africa has slipped further down the ladder on our global competitiveness ranking from 50 (2011), 52 (2012), 53 (2013) to 56 this year. In 2006 we were ranked 42nd.
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South Africa slips in Global Competitiveness Index rankings
South Africa has ranked 56 out of 144 countries, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2014/2015 Global Competitiveness Index (GCI).
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S.A. Fast Facts by Steuart Pennington
We try an update these figures every year, fortunately the Global Competitiveness Report and the Economist Pocket World in Figures are published annually, but many of our other sources are not. We...
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