Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009 was released on 8 October 2008

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

These reports range from global coverage, such as The Global Competitiveness Report, to the regional and topical,such as the Gender Gap study, the Arab World Competitiveness Report and theThe Global Information Technology Report.


The Global Competitiveness Report
The GCN'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 134 major and emerging economies. Further expansion of coverage is planned.

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 recently launched Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009 polled over 12,000 business executives worldwide.

Contact us
For information about the GCN, please contact us at gcp@weforum.org.