TIRANA, Oct 8 – The World Bank report on doing business was a big boost to the Albanian economic image to the world after it ranked second among the ten best reformers.
But the rankings of the Global Competitiveness Index 2008-2009, based on a poll conducted by the World Economic Forum that asked 12,000 business figures to assess 134 national economies (2007-2008 rankings in parentheses), showed those reforms had improved it only one point from 109 to 108.
1. United States, 2. Switzerland, 3. Denmark, Š40. Cyprus (55), 42. Slovenia (39), 46. Slovakia (41), 61. Croatia (57), 62. Hungary (47), 63. Turkey (53), 65. Montenegro (82), 66. Kazakhstan (61), 67. Greece (65), 68. Romania (74), 69. Azerbaijan (66), 72. Ukraine (73), 76. Bulgaria (79), 85. Serbia (91), 89. Macedonia (94), 90. Georgia (90), 95. Moldova (97), 107. Bosnia and Herzegovina (106), 108. Albania (109) and the last ones 132. Burundi (130), 133. Zimbabwe (129), 134. Chad (131).
Albania with no difference in the global competitiveness survey ranking
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