Singapore's competitiveness: The good, the bad and the ugly
It slips to third in WEF ranking; it scores in areas such as higher education but is lacking in others such as innovation
Singapore
SINGAPORE remains one of the world's most competitive economies across the board. Period. But if you prefer to nitpick, let's do that (too).
After basking in the sweet spot of being second for at least five straight years in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) flagship Global Competitiveness Index, the city state slipped one notch to third spot in the latest 2017-18 rankings, switching places with the United States.
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