NZ's global competitiveness improves, Australia slips

NZ's global competitiveness improves, Australia slips
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 5 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's global competitiveness has improved two notches to 23rd in the long-running World Economic Forum survey of official data and 14,059 senior executives around the globe, including 55 New Zealand business leaders. Released locally by the New Zealand Initiative, a pro-business think tank, the 2012-13 version of the Global Competitiveness Report includes the impact on 2011 government debt and deficit figures of the Christchurch earthquakes. The relative improvement in competitiveness woul...