2006 global competitiveness in the United States fell from 1 to 6 of

2006 global competitiveness rankings 2006 United States from 1st to 6th position in the area of concern to the World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum) annual competitiveness ranking list, the United States ranking from No. 1 to no. 6-bit, in Switzerland, the Nordic countries and Singapore.

The increasingly serious economic imbalances, public bodies, the relative lack of efficiency and transparency, as a result of the United States this year rankings drop.

Declinedfrom12th were France, from 12th to 18th place, because of its macro-economic, institutional and market efficiency score relatively low.

The ranking of the World Economic Forum, is a measure of the economic potential of one of the more important indicators, as it is in the calculation of the total integrated a lot of different indicators.

Headquartered in Switzerland at the World Economic Forum, has been on 2006-07 annual wefsaid, incorporating many new indicators of competitiveness, increase its role as the medium pointer States of accuracy.

But the ranking of tiny changes (such as the United Kingdom from the ninth to tenth place) and does not indicate competitiveness decreased significantly, because the national ranking near each other differences are small. World Economic Forum on the weight of different indicators, will seriously affect ranking status.

World Economic Forum commended the United Kingdom institutions and product and labor market efficiency, but also said that the United Kingdom business innovation suchas Germany and other countries.

World Economic Forum competitiveness index of major producers Augustus? Lopez-Claudia g SRE (Augusto Lopez-Claros) said that the ranking of the most useful is that you can see the obvious changes in the countries of the total, trends over time.

He said the current people like to keep everything and Brazil, Russia, India and China and other fast-growing emerging markets, but this approach could not afford to pay close attention.

For the serious concern of Russia, the country ranking from last year's 53 bits down to 62. Lopez-Claudia g SRE said, despite high oil prices let Russia economy with good performance, but "you must use the money to just" so that enterprises in the country.

China's ranking from No. 48-bit reduced to 54, reflected in the protection of intellectual property rights of the country encounter great difficulties in Brazil's economy is being "fragile".