World Competitiveness Yearbook

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The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is a comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations and ranking. It analyzes how a nation’s environment creates and sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 55 countries based on 323 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness.


Competitiveness factors and criteria include:

  • Economic performance
  • Government efficiency
  • Business efficiency
  • Infrastructure


In addition, the World Competitiveness Yearbook provides World Competitiveness Scoreboard of overall ranking of 55 countries, customized rankings split by population size, by wealth or by regions, country profiles and statistical tables.



The Library holds both print and electronic version (CDROM) of the World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY):

  • Print version:
Coverage: 1997 ; 2002-
Call Number: [REF] HF1414 .W67
Link to Library Catalogue


  • Electronic version (CDROM):
Coverage: 1999 ; 2002-
Call Number: HF1414 .W67
Available at the Circulation Counter


  • Electronic version (ONLINE):
Coverage: 1998-
Call Number: HF1414 .W67
Available at:http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy (Access restricted to Lingnan University users)
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