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  1. shinichi Post author

    Global Competitiveness

    http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-competitiveness

    The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014

    http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport_2013-14.pdf

    The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014 assesses the competitiveness landscape of 148 economies, providing insight into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity. The Report series remains the most comprehensive assessment of national competitiveness worldwide.

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  2. shinichi Post author

    The Global Competitiveness Index in detail (Japan)

    Indicator (value, rank/148)

    1st pillar: Institutions
    1.01 Property rights (5.8, 16)
    1.02 Intellectual property protection (5.7, 11)
    1.03 Diversion of public funds (5.4, 17)
    1.04 Public trust in politicians (3.8, 33)
    1.05 Irregular payments and bribes (6.1, 12)
    1.06 Judicial independence (6.0, 14)
    1.07 Favoritism in decisions of government officials (4.8, 10)
    1.08 Wastefulness of government spending (3.5, 52)
    1.09 Burden of government regulation (3.4, 81)
    1.10 Efficiency of legal framework in settling disputes (4.7, 28)
    1.11 Efficiency of legal framework in challenging regs. (4.1, 35)
    1.12 Transparency of government policymaking (5.2, 14)
    1.13 Business costs of terrorism (5.2, 91)
    1.14 Business costs of crime and violence (5.2, 43)
    1.15 Organized crime (5.2, 62)
    1.16 Reliability of police services (5.8, 23)
    1.17 Ethical behavior of firms (5.8, 11)
    1.18 Strength of auditing and reporting standards (5.5, 25)
    1.19 Efficacy of corporate boards (5.3, 19)
    1.20 Protection of minority shareholders’ interests (5.1, 20)
    1.21 Strength of investor protection, 0–10 (best)* (7.0 19)

    2nd pillar: Infrastructure
    2.01 Quality of overall infrastructure (6.0, 14)
    2.02 Quality of roads (6.0, 12)
    2.03 Quality of railroad infrastructure (6.7, 1)
    2.04 Quality of port infrastructure (5.2, 30)
    2.05 Quality of air transport infrastructure (5.4, 37)
    2.06 Available airline seat km/week, millions* (5,425.2, 4)
    2.07 Quality of electricity supply (6.0, 34)
    2.08 Mobile telephone subscriptions/100 pop.* (109.4, 73)
    2.09 Fixed telephone lines/100 pop.* (50.8 13)

    3rd pillar: Macroeconomic environment
    3.01 Government budget balance, % GDP* (10.2, 144)
    3.02 Gross national savings, % GDP* (21.6, 64)
    3.03 Inflation, annual % change* (0.0, 64)
    3.04 General government debt, % GDP* (237.9, 148)
    3.05 Country credit rating, 0–100 (best)* (82.2 18)

    4th pillar: Health and primary education
    4.01 Business impact of malaria (N/Appl., 1)
    4.02 Malaria cases/100,000 pop.* (NE, 1)
    4.03 Business impact of tuberculosis (5.9, 52)
    4.04 Tuberculosis cases/100,000 pop.* (20.0, 45)
    4.05 Business impact of HIV/AIDS (5.8, 53)
    4.06 HIV prevalence, % adult pop.* (0.10, 11)
    4.07 Infant mortality, deaths/1,000 live births* (2.4, 8)
    4.08 Life expectancy, years* (82.6, 3)
    4.09 Quality of primary education (5.1, 21)
    4.10 Primary education enrollment, net %* (100.0 2)

    5th pillar: Higher education and training
    5.01 Secondary education enrollment, gross %* (102.2, 27)
    5.02 Tertiary education enrollment, gross %* (59.7, 37)
    5.03 Quality of the educational system (4.1, 50)
    5.04 Quality of math and science education (4.7, 34)
    5.05 Quality of management schools (4.0, 86)
    5.06 Internet access in schools (5.2, 37)
    5.07 Availability of research and training services (5.5, 12)
    5.08 Extent of staff training (5.3 4)

    6th pillar: Goods market efficiency
    6.01 Intensity of local competition (6.2, 1)
    6.02 Extent of market dominance (5.6, 3)
    6.03 Effectiveness of anti-monopoly policy (5.2, 11)
    6.04 Effect of taxation on incentives to invest (3.6, 86)
    6.05 Total tax rate, % profits* (50.0 114)
    6.06 No. procedures to start a business* (8, 88)
    6.07 No. days to start a business* (23, 95)
    6.08 Agricultural policy costs (2.7, 145)
    6.09 Prevalence of trade barriers (4.0, 111)
    6.10 Trade tariffs, % duty* (3.0, 42)
    6.11 Prevalence of foreign ownership (5.0, 51)
    6.12 Business impact of rules on FDI (4.8, 48)
    6.13 Burden of customs procedures (5.0, 25)
    6.14 Imports as a percentage of GDP* (17.8, 145)
    6.15 Degree of customer orientation (6.3, 1)
    6.16 Buyer sophistication (5.3 1)

    7th pillar: Labor market efficiency
    7.01 Cooperation in labor-employer relations (5.6, 9)
    7.02 Flexibility of wage determination (5.8, 11)
    7.03 Hiring and firing practices (2.9, 134)
    7.04 Redundancy costs, weeks of salary* (4.3, 9)
    7.05 Effect of taxation on incentives to work (3.6, 76)
    7.06 Pay and productivity (4.7, 13)
    7.07 Reliance on professional management (5.5, 17)
    7.08 Country capacity to retain talent (4.3, 29)
    7.09 Country capacity to attract talent (3.3, 80)
    7.10 Women in labor force, ratio to men* (0.74 90)

    8th pillar: Financial market development
    8.01 Availability of financial services (5.3, 31)
    8.02 Affordability of financial services (5.2, 25)
    8.03 Financing through local equity market (4.7, 16)
    8.04 Ease of access to loans (3.4, 33)
    8.05 Venture capital availability (3.1, 39)
    8.06 Soundness of banks (5.6, 43)
    8.07 Regulation of securities exchanges (5.0, 29)
    8.08 Legal rights index, 0–10 (best)* (7 42)

    9th pillar: Technological readiness
    9.01 Availability of latest technologies (6.3, 14)
    9.02 Firm-level technology absorption (6.1, 6)
    9.03 FDI and technology transfer (4.8, 55)
    9.04 Individuals using Internet, %* (79.1, 24)
    9.05 Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions/100 pop.* . 27.9 (18,
    9.06 Int’l Internet bandwidth, kb/s per user* (33.0, 51)
    9.07 Mobile broadband subscriptions/100 pop.* (113.1 2)

    10th pillar: Market size
    10.01 Domestic market size index, 1–7 (best)* (6.2, 4)
    10.02 Foreign market size index, 1–7 (best)* (6.1, 8)
    10.03 GDP (PPP$ billions)* (4,627.9, 4)
    10.04 Exports as a percentage of GDP* (15.7 140)

    11th pillar: Business sophistication
    11.01 Local supplier quantity (6.2, 1)
    11.02 Local supplier quality (6.1, 2)
    11.03 State of cluster development (5.2, 7)
    11.04 Nature of competitive advantage (6.3, 2)
    11.05 Value chain breadth (6.0, 2)
    11.06 Control of international distribution (5.6, 2)
    11.07 Production process sophistication (6.5, 1)
    11.08 Extent of marketing (5.6, 9)
    11.09 Willingness to delegate authority (4.5 30)

    12th pillar: Innovation
    12.01 Capacity for innovation (5.6, 6)
    12.02 Quality of scientific research institutions (5.7, 9)
    12.03 Company spending on R&D (5.7, 2)
    12.04 University-industry collaboration in R&D (5.0, 17)
    12.05 Gov’t procurement of advanced tech products (3.9, 37)
    12.06 Availability of scientists and engineers (5.5, 4)
    12.07 PCT patents, applications/million pop.* (258.4 4)

    Notes: Values are on a 1-to-7 scale unless otherwise annotated with an asterisk (*). For further details and explanation, please refer to the section “How to Read
    the Country/Economy Profiles” on page 97.

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  3. shinichi Post author

    Partner Institutes

    The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness and Benchmarking Network is pleased to acknowledge and thank the following organizations as its valued Partner Institutes, without which the realization of The Global Competitiveness Report 2013–2014 would not have been feasible:

    Japan
    Keio University
        Yoko Ishikura, Professor, Graduate School of Media Design
        Heizo Takenaka, Director, Global Security Research Institute
        Jiro Tamura, Professor of Law, Keio University
    In cooperation with Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives)
        Kiyohiko Ito, Managing Director, Keizai Doyukai

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  4. shinichi Post author

    (sk)

    日本の問題は、
    3rd pillar: Macroeconomic environment (, )
        3.01 Government budget balance, % GDP* (10.2, 144)
        3.02 Gross national savings, % GDP* (21.6, 64)
        3.03 Inflation, annual % change* (0.0, 64)
        3.04 General government debt, % GDP* (237.9, 148)
        3.05 Country credit rating, 0–100 (best)* (82.2 18)
    だということらしい。

    でも日本は、こういう数字に現れてこないところで、どんどん悪くなっている。

    数字に現れたときはもう遅い。

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