In one camp is a tech billionaire with more than 181 million followers on his own social network. In the other, political leaders representing a country of just 26 million people.
It s not a competition We re great fans of competitiveness indexes at
Crikey those reports produced by neoliberal think tanks purporting to analyse the global competitiveness of economies and, invariably, urge fewer labour protections, less environmental regulation, and lower corporate taxes.
Having been invented by the World Economic Forum, they ve proliferated to such an extent you need a guide to them (which we ve happily provided). These analyses, while pretending to intellectual rigour, are just surveys of corporate executives, kleptocrats and oligarchs from around the world.
But luckily Australia s own neoliberal talkshop, CEDA, has shared the link to the survey for the forthcoming World Competitiveness Yearbook (a sort of Aldi World Economic Forum) which will assess the performance of 64 economies based on more than 330 criteria .