The Africa Competitiveness Report 2011
is the result ofcollaboration between the World Economic Forum, theWorld Bank, and the African Development Bank.
AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Professor Klaus Schwab
Executive Chairman
Robert Greenhill
Chief Business Officer
Jennifer Blanke
Lead Economist, Head of the Centre forGlobal Competitiveness and Performance
Ciara Browne
Associate Director
Katherine Tweedie
Director, Africa
AT THE WORLD BANK
Robert Zoellick
President
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region
Marilou Uy
Sector Director, Finance & Private SectorDevelopment, Africa Region
Michael Fuchs
Acting Sector Manager, Finance & PrivateSector Development, Africa Region
Giuseppe Iarossi
Senior Economist, Finance & Private SectorDevelopment, Africa Region
AT THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Donald Kaberuka
President
Mthuli Ncube
Chief Economist & Vice President, ECONComplex
Désiré Vencatachellum
Director, Development Research Department
Peter Ondiege
Chief Research Economist, DevelopmentResearch Department
Zuzana Brixiova
Principal Research Economist, DevelopmentResearch DepartmentWe thank the Africa Commission and the DanishGovernment for their financial contribution tothis
Report.
We thank Hope Steele for her superb editingwork and Neil Weinberg for his excellent graphicdesign and layout. Printing by SRO-Kundig.Copyright © 2011by the World Economic Forum, theInternational Bank for Reconstruction andDevelopment/The World Bank, the AfricanDevelopment Bank, and the AfricaCommissionPublished by the World Economic Forum,Geneva.The findings, interpretations, and conclusionsexpressed herein are those of the author(s)and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe Executive Directors of The World Bank,the African Development Bank, or the gov-ernments they represent.The World Bank, the African DevelopmentBank, and the World Economic Forum donot guarantee accuracy of the data includedin this work. The boundaries, colors, denomi-nations, and other information shown on anymap in this work do not imply any judgmenton the part of The World Bank, the AfricanDevelopment Bank, or the World EconomicForum concerning the legal status of any ter-ritory or the endorsement or acceptance ofsuch boundaries.All rights reserved. No part of this publica-tion may be reproduced, stored in a retrievalsystem, or transmitted, in any form or by anymeans, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,or otherwise without the prior permission ofthe World Economic Forum.The terms
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as used in thisreport do not in all cases refer to a territorialentity that is a state as understood by inter-national law and practice. The terms coverwell-defined, geographically self-containedeconomic areas that may not be states butfor which statistical data are maintained on aseparate and independent basis.ISBN-13: 978-92-95044-97-5
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