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The Best and Worst Logistics Performers 2010
The graphic below shows the Top and Bottom 10 Logistics Performers for 2010 based on research by The World Bank:
Source: Connecting to Compete 2010, Trade Logistics in the Global Economy, The World Bank
These countries are ranked by the Logistics Performance Index(LPI).
“Based on a worldwide survey of global freight forwarders and express carriers, the Logistics Performance Index is a benchmarking tool developed by the World Bank that measures performance along the logistics supply chain within a country. Allowing for comparisons across 155 countries, the index can help countries identify challenges and opportunities and improve their logistics performance. The World Bank conducts the survey every two years.”
Germany takes the top spot followed by Singapore and Sweden.Somalia, Eritrea and Sierra Leone are some of the low ranked countries. Generally high-income countries have quality infrastructure for trade and commerce. Low-income countries lack basic infrastructure which is a major impediment to growth.
First Post
Hello Readers
Welcome to my new site.Today is July 12, 2009, Sunday.This is my first post.
In this site (Global Econ Stats, GES for short) I plan to write about economic statistics for each country. Some of the topics that I intend to cover include GDP data in detail, exports, imports, listing of all banks and detail stats of important bank data, savings rate, unemployment rate, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) data, deficit/surplus data and other economics -related information. In addition, the site will contains links to important sites such as central banks, trade associations and other government agencies.
My goal is to make this site a premier location to find accurate, timely and relevant economics data for each country in the world.
Stay tuned as this site will be updated soon !
