4 reasons why your country should be more competitive
Why doesn't new tech make us more productive? Why is income inequality growing? This year's Competitiveness Index highlights four trends we should be paying closer attention to.
Xavier Sala-i-Martin is the Professor of Economics at Columbia University. In addition to working at Columbia, he has been a professor at Yale University, Harvard University, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, which he still visits for a term, every summer.
Why doesn't new tech make us more productive? Why is income inequality growing? This year's Competitiveness Index highlights four trends we should be paying closer attention to.
Greater living standards. Resilience to economic shocks. These are some of the reasons why nations should take their competitiveness seriously.