A2 Appendices to Chapter 2

A2.1 The structure and content of the information included in WCY (The World Competitiveness Yearbook)

Macroeconomic data of the countries included in the WCY, are divided into blocks, each of which in turn contains a number of sections. Since the structure of blocks and partition in 2001 underwent a major change, here are two options to describe WCY:

the structure and content of WCY until 2001 (for example, [WCY, 1999]);
the structure and content of WCY after 2001 (for example, [WCY, 2004]).

Full database of WCY has been supported for a number of years by Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (as of July 2011, CEMI has a database of indicators from WCY for ...

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