Mercosur countries rank poorly in Forbes’ “Best Countries for Business”

Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 21:14 UTC

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Mercosur full members (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) rank poorly in the Forbes magazine annual Best Countries for Business, with the best listed, Chile and Peru, in positions 24 and 42, out of 134 countries surveyed worldwide. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
Well, we could discuss the tables for the rest of the year!
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/6/best-countries-11_rank.html

UR & CH: two countries in the world with the Greatest Personal
Freedom (the same score as the UK)
AR: Market Performance massively better than BR.
AR & BR: Two of the last placed to deal with if you want Free Trade.
etc,
etc.

These worldwide comparisons are the wake-up call for those that think things are good.

Argentina: bottom quartile in the world on half the criteria, 5/10
Brasil: bottom quartile in the world for a third of the criteria, 3/10
Paraguay: bottom quartile in the world for 4/10 criteria.
Uruguay: bottom quartile in the world for 2/10 criteria.
c.f.
Chile: every criteria in the top two quartiles.

. . . . . and the bottom quartile contains some REAL 'basket cases'.
Oct 07th, 2011 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
“AR & BR: Two of the last placed to deal with if you want Free Trade”

because both nations know damn well that the “Free Trade” that is being lectured in the so called advanced nations is bogus. Even here in the US, they finally figure that out now that it's “Free Trade for the corporations that doesn't benefit the population at all”.
Oct 08th, 2011 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
TWIMC
I clearly remember that some short 13 years ago, Forbes Magazine ranked Argentina as the “Best Country for Business” in Latin-America…………

“Best Country for Business” according to Forbes……………
“Worst Country for 80% of us, Argentineans” according to history……..

I rather prefer the Argentina of today.
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GeoffWard2
“I clearly remember that some short 13 years ago, Forbes Magazine ranked Argentina as the “Best Country for Business” in Latin-America…………” (Think, #3)

Clearly, the imminent bancrupcy, borrowing, debts and defaults made Argentina a honeypot of a place to do business with :-(

Or perhaps it points up that all the other countries were , at that time, even worse.

“I rather prefer the Argentina of today.” (Think, #3)
Maybe Think is just expressing his preference for the Argentina of the 'unreality' - the pre-apocalyptic phase of its recurrent collapse-cycle.
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Rosarino
Argentina grew close to 9% every year for a decade.
Bad place to make bussiness--- no me jodas.
Maybe China is a bad place too , right?

What a joke.

B.R.
Oct 10th, 2011 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Rosario, #5,
in most senses, China has been a bad place to do business with.

Let me explain:

The distribution of industries across the nations of the world may have been globally 'inefficient,' but it ensured that people had productive jobs in all those 200 countries.

We have sacrificed our national workforces on the anvil of 'efficiency' and lowest cost of production.

And in the process - which accelerated under its own momentum, through positive feedback - China demanded the transfer, not only of the production, but of the most advanced, cutting-edge technologies, from all corners of the world.

Your unemployment is the direct result of the mistaken belief that the 'doing business with China' came without a huge and world-wide cost.
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