Friday, February 24, 2006

Quizz

For what was New Zealand ranked third in 2004, sixth in 2005 and ninth in 2006?

The answer is here.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is important to research whether the drop in rank was due to a decline in NZ's score or an increase in the score of other countries or both. One can actually improve a score and still drop in rank. Some nations like Estonia improved dramatically. This survey also tends to be more favourable to the US than the other index. Both show the US declining but the WSJ index is a bit more conservative in temperment and always scores the US better than the other index.

3:36 PM
Lindsay Mitchell said...

This survey goes back to 1995 and past results can be downloaded from the site. The total score is made up from various considerations like govt intervention, fiscal burden, trade policy etc. The lower the score, the better, and we have dropped over those three years from 1.70 to 1.75 to 1.84

4:47 PM

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