1 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 2003 (New York: UNCTAD, 2003), pp. 9-13. This report looks at whether a country is performing better or worse than its natural advantages or disadvantages (such as size of the domestic market) would predict.
2 A.T. Kearney, FDI Confidence Index 6 (September 2003), p. 13.
3 World Economic Forum, Global Competitiveness Report, 2003-2004 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
4 World Economic Forum Knowledge Navigator, Canada: Competitiveness Profile [on-line]. [cited Oct. 31, 2003]. Available from the Internet <www.weforum.org/site/knowledgenavigator.nsf/>.
5 For example, our survey results are generally supported by A.T. Kearney, the World Economic Forum and the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2003 (Lausanne: IMD, 2003) with some variations where Canada is considered an "average" performer. The Economist Intelligence Unit's Business Environment, on the other hand, projects Canada as the best country in the world in which to conduct business over the next five years (2003-07), up from fourth place in the period 1998-2002.