The Global Production
Scoreboard – Method & data |
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The Global Production
Scoreboard benchmarks emerging economies on key indicators of supply capacity and competitiveness. |
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Definitions |
Emerging economies (EME) are
defined as countries with a per-capita income not exceeding USD
20.000 in 2017.
Manufacturing industries are defined
in terms of their output, comprising all of the product categories of Sections 5 – 8 (minus Division 68)
of the Standard International Trade Classification (Rev. 3). |
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Indicators |
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Labour cost [+] |
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Skill base [+] |
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R&D capacity [–] |
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This indicator shows a country's
capacity for inventing or developing new and improved products
and production processes. |
Indicator values are based on indices
of (a) R&D expenditures as a share of GDP (weight = 0.50), and (b)
the number of US patent applications per capita (weight = 0.50). |
The indices are normalised and
converted to composite score values (from 0.000 to 1.000). |
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Infrastructure [+] |
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Government [+] |
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Local demand potential [+] |
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Foreign market access [+] |
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Export growth [+] |
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Export diversity [+] |
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High and medium-tech exports [+] |