By Rachel Lee
Costa Rica ranked second in Seoul National University's 2017 Report on Government Competitiveness, its embassy said.
The Center for Government Competitiveness (CGC), the Graduate School of Public Administration and Seoul National University held the 2017 Government Competitiveness(GC) Conference with the theme "Rethinking the Role of Government: Improving Government's Capacity in a Challenging Era" and announced the 2017 GC ranking on Oct. 31.
Ambassadors and diplomats of six developing countries and experts were on a conference panel _ Rodolfo Solano Quiros and Sofia Salas from Costa Rica, Phavanh Siliphong from Lao PDR, Edwin Ostos from Colombia, Jassim Al-Moftah from Qatar, Costin Ionescu from Romania, Ruslan Abdullayev from Azerbaijan, Sukwon Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, and Jesse Campbell, a professor at Incheon National University.
The conference heard that previous factors used to evaluate national competitiveness focused heavily on the market and business side. To address this, the CGC has put efforts into creating the GC index system, which includes the role of government in its analysis. The GC ranking has been announced every year since 2013.
The fifth conference reviewed the 2017 results and discussed policy recommendations in enhancing the government competitiveness of developing countries and future cooperation among participating countries.
Excluding Singapore and Qatar (3rd), the 2017 result showed an apparent clustering of countries on the basis of regions. Among the 89 countries, most of the top-tier states are from South America and Eastern Europe; Costa Rica (4th), Uruguay (5th), Lithuania (6th), Bulgaria (7th), Romania (9th) and Belarus (10th). Those in Sub-Saharan Africa tended to score less favorably in all sub-sections of government competitiveness.
The Government Competitiveness Report 2017 consists of a series of in-depth case studies of non-OECD countries, through which an individual overview of each sub-sector is conducted. The report provides an overview of relevant topics and politico-economic trends among the 89 non-OECD countries, categorized by the following geographical regions: Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and South Asia.
Costa Rica ranked second in Seoul National University's 2017 Report on Government Competitiveness, its embassy said.
The Center for Government Competitiveness (CGC), the Graduate School of Public Administration and Seoul National University held the 2017 Government Competitiveness(GC) Conference with the theme "Rethinking the Role of Government: Improving Government's Capacity in a Challenging Era" and announced the 2017 GC ranking on Oct. 31.
Ambassadors and diplomats of six developing countries and experts were on a conference panel _ Rodolfo Solano Quiros and Sofia Salas from Costa Rica, Phavanh Siliphong from Lao PDR, Edwin Ostos from Colombia, Jassim Al-Moftah from Qatar, Costin Ionescu from Romania, Ruslan Abdullayev from Azerbaijan, Sukwon Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, and Jesse Campbell, a professor at Incheon National University.
The conference heard that previous factors used to evaluate national competitiveness focused heavily on the market and business side. To address this, the CGC has put efforts into creating the GC index system, which includes the role of government in its analysis. The GC ranking has been announced every year since 2013.
The fifth conference reviewed the 2017 results and discussed policy recommendations in enhancing the government competitiveness of developing countries and future cooperation among participating countries.
Excluding Singapore and Qatar (3rd), the 2017 result showed an apparent clustering of countries on the basis of regions. Among the 89 countries, most of the top-tier states are from South America and Eastern Europe; Costa Rica (4th), Uruguay (5th), Lithuania (6th), Bulgaria (7th), Romania (9th) and Belarus (10th). Those in Sub-Saharan Africa tended to score less favorably in all sub-sections of government competitiveness.
The Government Competitiveness Report 2017 consists of a series of in-depth case studies of non-OECD countries, through which an individual overview of each sub-sector is conducted. The report provides an overview of relevant topics and politico-economic trends among the 89 non-OECD countries, categorized by the following geographical regions: Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and South Asia.
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