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These 10 countries have the best workers in the world

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Several continents are missing here.

In a new report ranking countries around the globe on their workers' potential, the World Economic Forum argues that the health of a nation's workforce "can be a more important determinant of its long-term economic success than virtually any other resource." The rankings are based on four factors: education, health, workforce, and enabling environment. Education measures the quality of schools and the achievement of students to get a sense of how both current and future workers have been educated. Health measures physical and mental well-being from childhood through old age.
Here are the 10 countries with the best workers, based on all of those factors.
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Canada | These 10 countries have the best workers in the world - Yahoo Finance Canada
 
Rainman05 said:
Yes... 4 continents to be precise (depending on how you count). Asia, middle east, africa and south america are all missing.

I say asia because I put singapore in Oceania, not asia...
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Singapore is in Asia. So is the Middle East.
 
Grand Mal said:
Singapore is in Asia. So is the Middle East.
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depends on how you divide up continents.

Really, there is no consensus worldwide.

I stick to the geo-cultural division of continents:
Europe
Asia
ME
Africa
Oceania
N America
S America

Though you can group them in many ways. You can have the americas as one continent along with euroasiaafrica and oceania. you can have 4 continents if you divide euroasiaafrica into euroasia and africa... you can have 5 if you also divide the americas into N and S america... etc.


You can choose to put Singapore in Asia.. and I would agree with you. that's fine. But just as well it could fit into oceania.
 
I would like to see the methodology on how they determined then got their results on those 4 factors... as well as who, individually and specifically, was involved in determining them and judging results...

Seems like a lot of open space for subjectivity. Not that it is determinant, but the WEF is based in Switzerland and they just happen to end up on top?
 
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Rainman05 said:
depends on how you divide up continents.

Really, there is no consensus worldwide.

I stick to the geo-cultural division of continents:
Europe
Asia
ME
Africa
Oceania
N America
S America

Though you can group them in many ways. You can have the americas as one continent along with euroasiaafrica and oceania. you can have 4 continents if you divide euroasiaafrica into euroasia and africa... you can have 5 if you also divide the americas into N and S america... etc.


You can choose to put Singapore in Asia.. and I would agree with you. that's fine. But just as well it could fit into oceania.
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Well, I do know the Israeli national soccer team would rather be seeded in Asia for World Cup qualifying. FIFA, for some reason, thinks Israel is in Europe,
 
Rainman05 said:
depends on how you divide up continents.

Really, there is no consensus worldwide.

I stick to the geo-cultural division of continents:
Europe
Asia
ME
Africa
Oceania
N America
S America

Though you can group them in many ways. You can have the americas as one continent along with euroasiaafrica and oceania. you can have 4 continents if you divide euroasiaafrica into euroasia and africa... you can have 5 if you also divide the americas into N and S america... etc.


You can choose to put Singapore in Asia.. and I would agree with you. that's fine. But just as well it could fit into oceania.
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And Indonesia..?
 
Grand Mal said:
Well, I do know the Israeli national soccer team would rather be seeded in Asia for World Cup qualifying. FIFA, for some reason, thinks Israel is in Europe,
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Israel is in the European World Cup area because all the Islamic countries are in the Asian. Yes this is true.
 
JP Hochbaum said:
Strange, most of the countries (9 out of 10) have strong labor unions and social programs. Supposedly that is supposed to make people want to work less! Its a lie I tell you, a lie!
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Again, another reason to be suspicious of the information given and the results.
 
PeteEU said:
Israel is in the European World Cup area because all the Islamic countries are in the Asian. Yes this is true.
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Oh, that's why. Makes sense.
 
Rainman05 said:
depends on how you divide up continents.

Really, there is no consensus worldwide.

I stick to the geo-cultural division of continents:
Europe
Asia
ME
Africa
Oceania
N America
S America

Though you can group them in many ways. You can have the americas as one continent along with euroasiaafrica and oceania. you can have 4 continents if you divide euroasiaafrica into euroasia and africa... you can have 5 if you also divide the americas into N and S america... etc.


You can choose to put Singapore in Asia.. and I would agree with you. that's fine. But just as well it could fit into oceania.
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1st off you made no reference to the sub-continent of India at all.

2nd Singapore is not really properly grouped with Oceania without a very large stretch of the imagination. It is practically a part mainland Asia and the Malaysian Peninsula and is larely inhabited by Malays, Chinese, and Indians. None of which are Oceanic cultures.
 
falcata said:
1st off you made no reference to the sub-continent of India at all.

2nd Singapore is not really properly grouped with Oceania without a very large stretch of the imagination. It is practically a part mainland Asia and the Malaysian Peninsula and is larely inhabited by Malays, Chinese, and Indians. None of which are Oceanic cultures.
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India is in Asia... you can put it different if you want, i don't understand your issue at all.

Singapore is just on the tip of the peninsula. Group it as you will really.
 
Rainman05 said:
India is in Asia... you can put it different if you want, i don't understand your issue at all.

Singapore is just on the tip of the peninsula. Group it as you will really.
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My issue is that you brought up many ways of dividing land masses with geo-cultural means and didn't even mention India once when it had an incredibly unique culture and is itself a subcontinent. You also don't have the cultural divide of Africa.

On the tip of the Peninsula or not you still have all of Indonesia to go through before you even get to Oceania. It also only very rarely that any one even considers the Malay Archipelago as part of Indonesia, by all means Singapore is geographically and culturally part of Asia..
 
falcata said:
My issue is that you brought up many ways of dividing land masses with geo-cultural means and didn't even mention India once when it had an incredibly unique culture and is itself a subcontinent. You also don't have the cultural divide of Africa.

On the tip of the Peninsula or not you still have all of Indonesia to go through before you even get to Oceania. It also only very rarely that any one even considers the Malay Archipelago as part of Indonesia, by all means Singapore is geographically and culturally part of Asia..
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The way I decide to group things when said thing isn't clear cut isn't up for debate. There is no consensus on what continents are really today. There are multiple definitions and multiple ways of looking at it .
Though you can group them in many ways. You can have the americas as one continent along with euroasiaafrica and oceania. you can have 4 continents if you divide euroasiaafrica into euroasia and africa... you can have 5 if you also divide the americas into N and S america... etc.
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As I said, you can group them as you want. You want to group india separately? go ahead, but that's the way you decide to look at things.
 
Probably the best rating agency is BERI (Business Environment Risk Intelligence) but reports are available by subscription only.
 
JP Hochbaum said:
Strange, most of the countries (9 out of 10) have strong labor unions and social programs. Supposedly that is supposed to make people want to work less! Its a lie I tell you, a lie!
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Many of those countries also have either a government mandated minimum wage or a socially mandated minimum wage that is higher than in the US. If a high minimum wage was bad for business, then why would they rank those countries work forces so highly? Seems that a lower paid workforce would have more value in the business world.

Also, the average annual number of work hours in those countries is lower than in the US. So why would countries that expect workers to work less, have work forces that are highly ranked?

Hmmm.
 
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