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Measuring Sustainable Competitiveness The Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index 38
Sustainable Competitiveness Index 2013 Methodology Changes to the Sustainable Competitiveness Index methodology The Sustainable Development Index was first developed and published in 2012. 20 years after Rio, the concept of “Sustainability” is widely used and applied. “Sustainability” or “Sustainable development” is a broad concept, encompassing a large number of themes and issues. In addition, many of the issues are dependent on each other and inter-acting. Factors determining the development level of a country can and should to be viewed from a long-term (sustainable) perspective in order to achieve a comprehensive view-point of competitiveness. Given the complexity – the number of issues, inter- relationships and changes over time - it might be argued that “sustainability” is better described in qualitative than quantitative terms. However, a qualitative description is always subject to the values, believes and background of the describer. Numeric values (single data points), in contrast, are not subjective. The data collected by various global institutions across all countries contain numerous single indicators (quantitative indicators) that are an expression of the current sustainability level of a certain aspect of sustainability. In order to exclude subjectivity, this Index has been calculated purely based on quantitative indicators. The quantitative indicators are carefully chosen as expressions of relevant aspects of sustainable development, based on a sustainability model that ensures inclusion of all relevant aspects of sustainability that can be measured in numbers. The sum of all these indicators together reflect the overall sustainability and sustainable competitiveness level of a country. The initial approach consisted of adapting corporate sustainability evaluation methodology based on the 3 pillars of sustainability – economic, environment, social (often referred to as “ESG”) – to evaluate the sustainability of a nation rather than a corporation. While the origins are found in corporate ESG evaluation, it is clear that the resulting methodology applied to evaluate sustainable competitiveness of countries is entirely different from the corporate sustainability ESG methodologies. Certain improvements have been applied in for the 2013 edition. Due to better data availability, three more indicators have been included. In addition, the methodology to generate scores from performance data and the methodology to calculate weightings of indicators have been reviewed and improved where necessary. The changes do not materially affect scorings and rankings, but allow for a better differentiation between countries within the same or comparable development levels or stages. Because of the changes in methodology, scoring and weight calculation, it is nevertheless not completely plausible to directly compare 2012 and 2013 rankings. For this reasons, the direct comparison of 2012 and 2013 rankings have been omitted from this report other than for overall rankings. While we believe that the methodology underlying the Sustainable Competitiveness Index is an accurate mirror of the sustainable competitiveness of a country, data availability is constantly improving and the concept of sustainability is still evolving. The methodology therefore remains work in progress. At the same time, we believe that a comprehensive evaluation of countries integrating both financial and “non-financial” aspects is a helpful tool to provide an inclusive picture of a country, its current sustainable development level, and potential to increase or sustain the current development and wealth levels. In this context, we hope that this Index can contribute to the on-going discussion of what drives success for countries and their populations. Table of contents The Sustainable Competitiveness Index 2013 39
Page 1 and 2: The sustainable competitiveness ind
Page 3 and 4: About this Report About this report
Page 5 and 6: Table of Contents 1 The Index: Sust
Page 7 and 8: Sustainable Competitiveness Introdu
Page 9 and 10: Sustainable Competitiveness World M
Page 11 and 12: Relation to Economic Output: Sustai
Page 13 and 14: Sustainable Competitiveness Ranking
Page 15 and 16: Elements of sustainable competitive
Page 17 and 18: Regional Rankings Natural Capital N
Page 19 and 20: Natural Capital Rankings 89-176 Cou
Page 21 and 22: National Resource Efficiency Lower
Page 23 and 24: Regional Spread Resource Intensity
Page 25 and 26: Resource Intensity Rankings 89-176
Page 27 and 28: Innovation & Competitiveness Sustai
Page 29 and 30: Regional Spread Sustainable Innovat
Page 31 and 32: Sustainable Innovation Rankings 89-
Page 33 and 34: Foundation of stable development So
Page 35 and 36: Regional Spread Social Cohesion Reg
Page 37: Social Cohesion Rankings 89-176 Cou
Page 41 and 42: Sustainable Competitiveness Factors
Page 43 and 44: Sustainable Innovation& Social Cohe
Page 45 and 46: Index Calculation Scoring the Indic
Page 47 and 48: Limitations Reliance on Quantitativ
Page 49 and 50: Intro “Sustainable Competitivenes
Page 51 and 52: Measuring Davos Men Competitiveness
Page 53 and 54: Davos Man Data Sources Is an “Exe
Page 55 and 56: Economic & Innovation Criteria Comp
Page 57 and 58: Davos Men vs. Sustainable Competiti
Page 59 and 60: Sustainable vs. Davos Man Competiti
Page 61 and 62: Davos Man vs. Sustainability Conclu
Page 63 and 64: Achieving sustainable competitivene
Page 65 and 66: Achieving Sustainable Wealth Elemen
Page 67 and 68: Sustaining the Eco-systems Sustaina
Page 69 and 70: Sustaining Competitiveness Ensuring
Page 71 and 72: Sustaining Growth Innovation-based,
Page 73 and 74: The Basis of Continued Development
Page 75 and 76: Rank 31, 20% Below Best Score Korea
Page 77 and 78: Securing Food Supplies Food & Agric
Page 79 and 80: Need for an Alternative Energy Poli
Page 81 and 82: Ensuring Quality and Innovation - B
Page 83 and 84: Healthy, But Not Very Happy Crime &
Page 85 and 86: Sustainable Competitiveness Ranking
Page 87 and 88: All criteria: Rank 45-88 Rankings a
Page 89 and 90:
All criteria: Rank 132-186 Rankings
Page 91 and 92:
Resource Intensity & Efficiency Ran
Page 93 and 94:
Social Cohesion Rankings at a glanc
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