[KS] World Bank on Korea

[Robert C. Provine]

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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:45:35 +0200
To: korean-studies at iic.edu
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Frank <ruediger.frank at rz.hu-berlin.de>
Subject: World Bank on Korea

Dear list,

the Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) of the Word Bank reports, that:

The Korea Investment Service Center has recently re-launched its Web
site
-- http://www.kisc.org/.  In addition to information on market
conditions,
investment incentives and procedures, the revamped site includes
information on specific investment opportunities in various regions of
South Korea, a "what's new" section, as well as a listing of upcoming
events.  A link to this and other sites can be found in IPAnet's
Investment
Links under Investment Promotion Agencies, East and South East Asia --
http://www.ipanet.net/ilink/drilldown.cfm?type=20&family=364,13&child=13&pco
unt=39.

BTW, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) tops this
year's
ranking of investment promotion agency Web sites.

Also available in the WWW is the yearly "Global Competitiveness Report"
by
the World Economic Forum at:

http://www.weforum.org/reports_pub.nsf/Documents/Home+-+Reports+and+Publicat
ions+-+Global+Competitiveness+Report+-+Growth+Competitiveness+Ranking.

Growth Competitiveness: SKorea ranks 29th this year after having been
22nd
in 1999. The USA top the list and have changed places with Singapore.

Current Competitiveness: SKorea ranks 27th this year after having been
28th
in 1999. Finland is No. 1, the USA follow.

Economic Creativity Index: SKorea 0.50, Japan 0.69, USA 1.22

Technology Index: SKorea 0.82, Japan 1.59, USA 1.08

Best,

Rudiger

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