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The GFCC Competitiveness Decoder, a pioneering data-driven tool, was conceived to illuminate the key drivers propelling national competitiveness. Developed by the GFCC and its members, with initial backing from the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI), this first-of-its-kind online interactive tool enabled various stakeholders — nations, policymakers, and investors alike — to measure the competitiveness performance of more than 100 nations over 35 years and across 130+ metrics organized in 8 core pillars. It operated on a comprehensive conceptual foundation while offering cutting-edge visualization and statistical functions.
After successfully demonstrating the concept, sparking the creation of similar tools, and delivering unique analytics, insights, and data to a global user base, the Competitiveness Decoder concluded its journey in 2021. An archived and unmaintained copy of this groundbreaking tool remains accessible for reference here.
What is the GFCC
Competitiveness Decoder™?
The Competitiveness Decoder™ is a first of-its-kind, data-based tool developed to visualize the key drivers of national competitiveness: the long-term growth of living standards through improvements in productivity.
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Dynamically see how countries are improving over time in relation to others
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Compare nations based on a range of competitiveness drivers
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competitiveness
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Data
Explore raw data and visually identify trends. The competitiveness metrics dataset includes 131 metrics related to national competitiveness, organized in 8 dimensions. It covers 101 countries over 35 years.
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World
Use graphical tools to understand how countries perform in relation to others. You can directly see competitiveness metrics data, visually identify trends and graphically understand how countries perform in relation to others in each metric, at any given period of time.
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Trade
Graphically explore global market performance for different industries and product categories. Ultimately, competitiveness is related to market share. Keeping that in mind, we used UN Comtrade data to create a comprehensive dataset on international commerce. You can explore it with visualization tools and understand which countries are the most competitive players in different global markets.
Analyze
Competitiveness is a dynamic and relative process. The Competitiveness Decoder™ helps you to understand what drives competitiveness, how countries evolve over time in any metric and/or in their performances in the global market.
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Timeview
Dynamically see how countries are improving over time in relation to others, in any of the 131 metrics.
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Fast Movers
Identify which countries are making the most progress for any given metric and time period.
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Trade Growth
Identify the countries that are actively gaining market share in the global commerce arena.
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Drivers
Design your own regression and see what drives economic growth, employment, productivity, foreign direct investment and gross fixed capital formation.
Compare
Competitiveness is a relative game; therefore having the capacity to make eloquent comparisons is important for policy makers, investors, analysts, business leaders. The Competitiveness Decoder™ allows users to identify peer countries, make meaningful comparisons, analyze data, and to understand performance gaps and competitive challenges faced by more than 100 countries.
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Clusters
Define clusters of competitiveness and identify countries that share common characteristics. Clusters divide countries in groups that share similar features in order to make fair comparisons and identify strategies.
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Rank
Set strategic priorities and see how countries are positioned in relation to others.
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Gap Analysis
Understand the relative size of competitiveness gaps for more than 100 countries and estimate how long it will take countries to catch up with leading performers.
Learn
Moving up the competitiveness ladder depends on learning, mastering new concepts and understanding what could be done to improve the reality.
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Gfcc Best Practices
Discover what GFCC members are doing to improve competitiveness in their countries.
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Competitiveness practices
Check 40,000+ reports and white papers from international organizations to grasp what’s being done around the globe to improve performance in the eight dimensions covered in the Competitiveness Decoder™.