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The Global Competitiveness Report, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) each year, measures 113 factors that contribute to
The Global Competitiveness Report, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) each year, measures 113 factors that contribute to
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2023-02-22
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The Global Competitiveness Report, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) each year, measures 113 factors that contribute to an economy’s competitiveness and it is widely watched by countries that want to find out their weak spots and by companies deciding where to invest. In the overall ranking, the U.S. finishes first out of 131 countries. Next are Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Fin-land, Singapore, Japan, the U.K. and the Netherlands. Further down are some more surprising comparisons, such as South Korea at No. 11, up from 23rd place last year.
【B11】_____________
A fundamentals-driven economy like Egypt or Bolivia is judged more on basic requirements such as the reliability of police services and electricity supply; an efficiency-driven economy like Brazil or Latvia is evaluated more by measures such as Internet access in schools and strength of investor protection; and an innovation-driven economy like France or South Korea sees more weight put on more sophisticated issues such as company R&D spending and marketing.
【B12】________________________________________
U.S., for instance, grabs the No. 1 slot for 10 measures, but in certain areas it doesn’t perform well. It scores 69th for primary-school enrollment and 75th in ability to fend off organized crime. The U.S. does particularly poorly when it comes to macroeconomic gauges: 89th for level of government debt, 107th for savings rate. "It’s a real warning sign coming out of the data," says Blankem, a senior economist at the WEF.
The data also challenge some widespread beliefs—for instance, that high taxes stifle business.【B13】_____________________
"There’s always the debate about more government, less government, more taxes, less taxes," says Xavier Sala-i-Martin, the Columbia University economist who designed the index. "This suggests that is the wrong debate. We should be talking about what the government does and not its size."
Take Kenya. The sub-Saharan nation ranks badly on many basic measures, such as favoritism in decisions of government officials (115th) and business impact of malaria (113th), but on some more sophisticated metrics it does quite well—eighth for legal rights tied to the financial markets and 31st for quality of scientific-research institutions.【B14】____________________
But for all that the data can teach us, keep in mind that the nature of a ranking masks certain economic realities of a globalized world. The ability of countries to raise their citizens’ standard of living is not a zero-sum game.【B15】___________That’s why South Korea invests in North Korea, which is in some respects an economic black hole. At the end of the day, both can be winners.
[A] Dig deeper into the data behind a country’s ranking, and there are often surprises lurking.
[B] Geography, physical capital, technology, worker education—they’ve all taken a turn as the supposed silver bullet.
[C] Skipping the basics while nailing the more complicated stuff is an abnormal yet increasingly widespread trend—think of the places in Africa that leaped from no phones to cell phones, bypassing landlines—but whether a country can excel in the long run without a more stable foundation is another question.
[D] Nearly 200 years ago, Ricardo gave a detailed lesson about comparative advantage: when two economies interact, they both can benefit even if one is more advanced across the board.
[E] The U.S. and Switzerland, two moderately taxed countries, are at the top of the list, but so are Denmark, Sweden and Finland, where taxes are sky high.
[F] Part of the way countries stack up results from how the WEF weights a nation’s scores according to its stage of development.
[G] The index focuses on productivity, not its collateral effects.
【B15】
选项
答案
D
解析
空格前提到各国提高其人民生活水平不是一场零和博弈(a zero-sum game),即并非一方获益,另一方就损失。空格后指出韩国在朝鲜投资使得朝韩两国共赢。空格前后的观点一致,故推测空格处也应该是相似的表述;而且根据空格后的That’s why…可知,空格处应与经济发展的“共赢”有关。D出现了both can benefit.论述经济交流可以产生互赢,与上下文相符,故为答案。
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