This paper is an input to the Global Federation of Competitiveness Council's annual "Best Practice" publication. It examines the methodology used by the NCC to benchmark international competitiveness. Competitiveness is essentially an expression of relativity. A country’s competitiveness is always articulated in terms of how it performs relative to other countries in a certain area or metric. Therefore international benchmarking is, arguably, the only effective way to measure a country’s competitiveness. Benchmarking also provides the NCC with the analytical underpinning for policy recommendations to maximise Ireland’s international competitiveness.

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