"William Wright" wrote in
news:YQzob.56645$ao4.154505@attbi_s51:
"Juvat" wrote in message
...
After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police
noname blurted out:

Finland is the world's most competitive economy followed by
the United
States, Sweden, Denmark and Taiwan, according to a Global
Competitiveness Report released Thursday.


In economic terms "competitive economy" is extremely nebulous,
and some economists would suggest meaningless.


Not to set off a braging contest, but WRT the nordic
economies, below are some realworld figures for comparison
to the above.


Which nation's economy, per capita GDP (i.e. most productive
per person) is the highest?

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications...order/2004rank
..
html

Luxemburg 1, USA 2 ... Finland 19


Norway 6..


Of the nordic countries, Norway's GDP is 37% ahead of Finland
and Sweden according to the latest figures from Nordic
Statistical Yearbook 2003.

http://www.dst.dk/dstkt/nord2003/204.PDF


Norway also has the highest net foreign trade result..

http://www.ssb.no/vis/magasinet/norg...rt-2003-10-10-
01.html



Highest net revenues (through the $100 Billion Petroleums
Fund):

http://www.norges-bank.no/english/petroleum_fund/


...and thus no foreign debt:

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications...der/2079rank.h
tml



Norway also has the lowest inflationrate..

http://www.ssb.no/vis/magasinet/norg...rt-2003-10-10-
01.html



..and highes employment rate of the Nordic countries:

http://www.dst.dk/dstkt/nord2003/155.PDF


In other words, per capita the Norwegian economy is, by far,
the strongest of the nordic countries.


Regards...