Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance


Through its reports and activities the Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance of the World Economic Forum identifies impediments to growth and thereby helps stimulate the development of relevant strategies to achieve sustained economic progress. The Centre works with leading academics worldwide to ensure latest thinking and research on global competitiveness are incorporated into its reports.

The Network publishes a number of reports besides the flagship publication The Global Competitiveness Report.  These include The Global Information Technology Report, The Global Enabling Trade Report, The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report as well as some regional reports.

The Global Competitiveness Report
The team's flagship publication is The Global Competitiveness Report  (GCR). It is the most comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the comparative strengths and weaknesses of national economies, used by governments, academics and business leaders. The GCR was first published in 1979 and its coverage has expanded each year since, now extending to over 130 major and emerging economies. The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 will be launched on 9 September 2010.

The Executive Opinion Survey
The Executive Opinion Survey is a major component of The Global Competitiveness Report and provides the key ingredient that turns the Report into a representative annual measure of a nation’s economic environment and its ability to achieve sustained growth, gathering valuable information on a broad range of variables for which hard data sources are scarce or, frequently, nonexistent. The Survey polls around 13,000 business executives worldwide.

Contact us
For information about the Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance, please contact us at gcp@weforum.org.