Criterion of the Month and Articles

What drives an economy to be highly talent competitive?

By Christos Cabolis

Last week, the IMD World Competitiveness Center, launched the final ranking for 2020: the IMD World Talent Ranking! It captures the capacity of an economy to develop as well as attract talent...

European economies take 8 out of top 10 spots in 2020 World Talent Ranking

In order, from first to fifth were: Switzerland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Iceland, and Sweden. This year’s results — which use hard data from 2019 and survey answers from January to April 2020 &mdash...

The hidden impact of COVID-19

By Christos Cabolis, José Caballero

As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc around the world, concerns have largely been focussed on its immediate impact on economies and health-systems. Lockdowns have led to business...

Switzerland must be bolder in innovation and investment to keep pace with the digital revolution

Switzerland is “well positioned” to challenge the global leaders the digital revolution, according to Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center Arturo Bris, but there are signs that a lack...

The future of the world will depend on digitalization

The United States came first, Singapore second, and Denmark third in the  2020 IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking, a giant compilation of data that economists said could help predict how...

Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich triumph in global smart city index

Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich have taken the podium positions in the 2020 IMD-SUTD Smart City Index Report, a collaboration between IMD and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)...

Three ways Venezuela can develop a more competitive economy

By Arturo Bris

Why globalization is going nowhere, despite the current panic

By Christos Cabolis

Globalization, that is the increased interdependency among economies with respect to trade of goods and services, as well as the flow of capital, people and ideas, has long had its pluses and...

The long road to capitalism: here’s why China has arrived

By Arturo Bris, Mark J. Greeven

Webinar on The long road to capitalism: here’s why China has arrived with Professors Bris and Greeven

World Competitiveness Yearbook 2020

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the leading annual report on the competitiveness of countries and has been published by IMD since 1989. It benchmarks the performance of 63...

A call for action to Switzerland’s economic decision-makers

By Arturo Bris, Michel Demaré

Reflections on the economic implications of COVID-19

By Christos Cabolis

Coronavirus entered our lives and our vocabulary in just December 2019 but has quickly become a daily feature of them, and a global public health crisis. The repercussions are not symmetric, as...

This is how we can close the workplace gender gap

By Arturo Bris

Striving to create a genuinely inclusive workplace.

Pandemic bonds in coronavirus times: ‘financial goofiness’ or fiscal genius?

By Arturo Bris, Salvatore Cantale

Given the fact that further pandemics are expected, financial instruments like these could offer advantages that go beyond offsetting the potential challenges associated with future outbreaks.

Social justice: Bridge over troubled waters

By Christos Cabolis

How cohesive a society is depends on the attitudes that manage the relationships among different social groups. Yet, these relationships are often dominated by a majority group or coalitions...