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Serbia advances on annual global competitiveness report
Serbia has advanced on the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitive Index Report 2018, ranking 65th among 140 countries which was released this week.
Compared to the previous year’s report, Serbia has achieved progress in all fields except institutions. The country’s best grades are in health care (81.5 of a possible 100 points), macroeconomic stability (75) and infrastructure (73). It’s lowest grades are in innovation capability (39.7 points), market size (50.7) and >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << institutions (51.6).
The report said that the entire Balkan region "lags behind other groups" in economic competitiveness, with Bosnia and Herzegovina ranked worst in the region at 91st place overall.
The report assesses the economic competitiveness of 140 countries, “providing unique insight into the drivers of economic growth in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
Europe is a “story of contrasts”, the report says and specifies that there are four distinct groups: “a very competitive north-west, including Switzerland; a relatively competitive south-west, led by France; a rising north-east region, led by Poland, the Czech Republic and the Baltic countries, which rank on par with or higher than several Western European economies on several aspects of competitiveness; and the south-eastern region—in particular, the Balkan countries—which lags behind the other groups.”
The best ranked country in the region is Slovenia in 35th place overall. Croatia slipped from 66th to 68th places, Montenegro is 71st and Macedonia 84th. EU members Bulgaria and Romania ranked 51stand 52nd respectively.
