is America the new Rman Empire? - Page 8

Undertoad · 01-12-2007, 10:53 AM

They have massively increased in the last decade, according to this competitiveness scorecard which seems to be pretty prominent. They spent 1997-2001 ranked in the 30s, but in 2006 they ranked 19th in the world in 2006 (after rising from 31st in 2005).

Maybe it's a fluke, I don't know how the rankings are set. Based on the past years and this year, China would be roughly considered in the same "bracket" as Belgium, Scotland, Thailand, Korea, Chile.

Hippikos · 01-12-2007, 05:45 PM

Luxembourg is in 4th place. Which parameters are they using?? Clean air, use of toiletpaper?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-12-2007, 06:34 PM

Luxembourg is in 9th place, Iceland is 4th.

They are ranking the economies from the most to the least competitive, which rate a country on how efficient and sucessful the country is in business. How well their citizens should be able to maintain a good standard of living. That doesn't mean they could become a world power. That requires more than this rating covers.

Ibby · 01-12-2007, 06:50 PM

China may have its... shortcomings, but it sure as hell has a competitive economy, for all their bluster about the CCP.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-13-2007, 12:20 AM

Let's give UT's Ralph Peters link a bit of testing -- I not only got a "Firefox couldn't find" but no URL shown in the browser window at all. Will it (the link and the site) come up later?

Undertoad · 01-13-2007, 01:50 AM

fixed

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-13-2007, 01:58 AM

Thanx, tanx, cranx... Manx.

01-12-2007, 05:45 PM	#107
Hippikos Flocci Non Facio Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In The Line Of Fire Posts: 571	Luxembourg is in 4th place. Which parameters are they using?? Clean air, use of toiletpaper? __________________ Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

01-12-2007, 06:34 PM	#108
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Luxembourg is in 9th place, Iceland is 4th. They are ranking the economies from the most to the least competitive, which rate a country on how efficient and sucessful the country is in business. How well their citizens should be able to maintain a good standard of living. That doesn't mean they could become a world power. That requires more than this rating covers. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-12-2007, 06:50 PM	#109
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	China may have its... shortcomings, but it sure as hell has a competitive economy, for all their bluster about the CCP. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

01-13-2007, 12:20 AM	#110
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Let's give UT's Ralph Peters link a bit of testing -- I not only got a "Firefox couldn't find" but no URL shown in the browser window at all. Will it (the link and the site) come up later? __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

01-13-2007, 01:58 AM	#112
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Thanx, tanx, cranx... Manx. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

01-12-2007, 10:53 AM	#106
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	They have massively increased in the last decade, according to this competitiveness scorecard which seems to be pretty prominent. They spent 1997-2001 ranked in the 30s, but in 2006 they ranked 19th in the world in 2006 (after rising from 31st in 2005). Maybe it's a fluke, I don't know how the rankings are set. Based on the past years and this year, China would be roughly considered in the same "bracket" as Belgium, Scotland, Thailand, Korea, Chile.

01-13-2007, 01:50 AM	#111
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	fixed

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