Costa Rica advances four positions in global competitiveness

Taken from: www.nacion.com

Costa Rica advanced four positions in the global competitiveness ranking presented by the World Economic Forum, in the city of Dalian, Chinea.

The country occupies the position #55 among 133 countries. Last year it figured in the position #59.

Among the factors that influenced for the progress of the country figure the improvements in infrastructure carried out by concessionsof public work, ports and the administration change the Juan Santamaría international airport on the part of the American consortium Houston Airport System, explained Mr. Lawrence Pratt, director of the Latin-American Center for the Competitiveness and Sustainable Development of INCAE (Costa Rican Institute of Business Administration.

The Report of Global Competitiveness analyzes 12 factors to determine the efficiency of the countries (institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, health and primary education, higher education, goods market efficiency, efficiency of labor market, sophistication of the financial market, technological preparation, and size of the market, business sophistication and innovation).