The best way I know of to compare countries is via the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.
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If you compare it countries with similar levels of those, it is indeed near the top of the pack.
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For additional evidence, we can compare the major countries that did or did not pursue zero interest rates.
Most controversially, they suggest "poor productivity" is due in part to attitudes to work in the UK - which they compare unfavourably with countries such as Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong.
The new combined organisation will retain the American Airlines name and offer more than 6, 700 daily flights to 336 destinations in 56 countries (to compare, United, the second largest airline, flies to 186 destinations in 69 countries).
The creation of the euro in 1999 was supposed to encourage prices to converge, by making it easier to compare prices in different countries.
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These days there is little to compare between the two countries.
If that sounds counterintuitive, consider that countries that compare well in terms of economic growth already might have attracted plenty of stock buyers, pushing valuations higher.
Thanks to these reforms, Italy's prospective pension bill and its overall unemployment (though not its youth unemployment) compare well with other European countries.
We must also ensure that, like the countries we typically compare ourselves to, we provide quality early childhood education, health care and extended learning opportunities to all children in need.
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Murder is declining in the countries Britain likes to compare itself with.
This makes it necessary to compare happiness and political institutions across countries.
However, these measures do have the advantage of being independent of accounting rules, so they can be used to compare companies in different industries and countries.
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U.S. enrollment and school completion rates compare favorably with those of other industrial countries.
Enrollment at the secondary level has grown, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of the student-age population, and attainment rates compare favorably with those of other industrial countries.
The index, compiled by Mercer and the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, attempts to compare the widely varying systems of the countries in three broad areas: adequacy, sustainability and integrity.
Participants explored acidity, salinity, filtration and distillation through experiments made possible with the microscience kits which were sent to 30 developing countries, allowing them to compare results through a website.
This can be for assay development, where you need to have the same animal to test drugs and to compare drugs with other people working in other countries.
Social comparisons based on material goods that are commonplace in affluent societies were non-existent in poorer countries: How could the poor compare their meager possessions and material situations with their peers who also have so little?
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The World Cup opens a window onto 32 countries, giving spectators a chance to compare styles of soccer.
AIMR's initiative recognises, so long as countries have different standards, investors cannot compare apples with apples across borders.
Some critics, while admiring its craftsmanship, compare it to triumphalist monuments once favoured by European countries when they had empires, and which proliferated in the Soviet Union.
Nor did she care to compare Japan's women with the forceful feminists of western countries.
Once the countries were selected, the next step was to compare their classifications of occupations with the International Standard of Occupations (ISCO-08), which was used as a base for this research.
If we are interested in distribution from the point of view of issues such as migration, the marginalisation of developing countries and capacity to repay foreign debts, we should compare incomes with market exchange rates.
The visualization presented here was created by MIT Media Lab student Alex Simoes and can be used to compare the "Development Tree" or "HDI tree" for a pair of countries.
Because this happens far less frequently elsewhere, it is very difficult to compare U.S. business taxes (either rates or payments) with those in other countries.
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Simon and Glass are working on a project to compare the "emotional well-being" of U.S. parents versus parents from 21 other developed countries.
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