{"id":58225,"date":"2017-09-14T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/uae-improves-in-six-competitiveness-indicators\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:45:19","slug":"uae-improves-in-six-competitiveness-indicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/uae-improves-in-six-competitiveness-indicators\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE improves in six competitiveness indicators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi &ndash; The United Arab Emirates improved its position in six global competitiveness rankings this year, reported the <em>Emirates News Agency (WAM)<\/em>. According to the news agency, this consolidates even more the country&rsquo;s image as an investment attraction hub. <\/p>\n<p>In the indicators mentioned, the UAE places first among the nations of the region, according to <em>WAM<\/em>. In the <em>World Competitiveness Yearbook<\/em> of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), the country climbed five positions in 2017, reaching the 10th place in the world ranking. <\/p>\n<p>In the <em>Global Competitiveness Report<\/em> of the World Economic Forum, the UAE improved from 17th to the 16th place among the 138 countries surveyed in the 2016\/2017 edition released at the end of September of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Arab nation went from 41th to the 35th position in the <em>Global Innovation Index<\/em>, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization and by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In the report <em>Doing Business<\/em>, from the World Bank, the UAE climbed from the 34th position in 2016 to the 26th position in 2017; in the <em>World Happiness Report<\/em>, from the UN Sustainable Development Studies Network, from the 28th to the 21st; and in the <em>Gender Inequality Index<\/em>, from the United Nations Development Programme, the country is at the 46th position among the 159 nations. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-190273\">WAM<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country climbed positions in rankings released by different international organizations and consolidates the image of international business hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":190273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The country climbed positions in rankings released by different international organizations and consolidates the image of international business hub.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}