The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report focuses on twelve basic categories, but many are slow-moving forces like institutions and education. Finland, for example, has been near the top of the forum’s ranking system for a long time, and in 2015 it ranked fourth in the world and first in a dozen subcategories ranging from primary schools to antimonopoly policies. Finland was also the survey’s top-ranked European Union country. Yet it suffered one of the slowest recoveries from the crisis of 2008, far behind the United States, Germany, and Sweden, and was about on par with the
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