Jordan's law enforcement ranked 24th in the world, 4th in the Middle East, in terms of police services' reliability in the Global Competitiveness Report.

Azerbaijan is also ranked 57th in the Global Competitiveness Report for 2010-2011, which is above other CIS countries.

Iran ranks 69th out of 139 in Global Competitiveness Report.

Somewhat similar annual reports are the Indices of Economic Freedom and the Global Competitiveness Report.

According to the Global Competitiveness Report, the Most Problematic Factors for Doing Business is the access to finances, corruption and bureaucracy.

The Global Competitiveness Report for 2008-2009 ranked the soundness of Barbados's commercial banks as 21st out of 134 global jurisdictions assessed.

The Global Competitiveness Report looks at several other factors that effect economic growth such as infrastructure, health, and education.

Singapore has been ranked consistently in the top five positions in the Global Competitiveness Report in terms of its reliability of police services.

I hope that there will be an opportunity to come back to these issues in the Commission' s 2001 Competitiveness Report, which will be presented in a few weeks' time.

The Global Competitiveness Report of 2008-2009 ranked Portugal 43rd out of 134 countries and territories.