World Competitiveness Yearbook 1996

The 1996 edition of the World Competitiveness Yearbook is a continuation of the World Competitiveness Report under a new name. Since 1989, IMD together with the World Economic Forum had jointly produced the annual World Competitiveness Report. This report annually received much press coverage, but also latterly much criticism. Economists argue that countries do not compete in the same way as companies do. This 1996 edition is compiled solely by IMD with the same team of researchers who have produced the previous eight reports.

The World Competitiveness Yearbook measures and compares 46 countries, using 224 different variables to give...