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“ SWITZERLAND VS COLOMBIA”

Bogotá-Colombia September 2018

SWITZERLAND VS COLOMBIA

About the latest reports on global competitiveness with which we will compare Colombia with the
most competitive country in the world, in the ratings Colombia has a low rating in pillar 2, which is
infrastructure, an analysis of the infrastructure differences of both countries, according to the
global competitiveness report in 2017, Switzerland holds the number 1 position in the ranking as
the most competitive country in the world while Colombia lost 5 ranking positions and ranked
66th in infrastructure. The infrastructure is a pillar that constitutes the measurement of the quality
of road, rail, port, air transport and additionally includes the electrical and telephone
infrastructure.

A developed and efficient infrastructure is fundamental to guarantee the good functioning of the
economy that allows to have products and services in the Market in a fast and timely way, for this
reason one of the reasons why Colombia has not grown economically bad administrations or
correction that has not stopped developing the necessary infrastructure for a competitive country,
Colombia occupies the position 120 in quality of life something worrying, there is still a lot of road
communication with the different regions slowing down and making the commercial and people
mobility more expensive, On the other hand, the Swiss infrastructure has a great difference in its
railway structure compared to Colombia, which occupies the 6th place in Colombia and 87th in the
2nd pillar in the world.

The railway network of Switzerland is envied when it has several modalities of trains that allows
people to transport more quickly and comfortably to their different destinations, freight trains are
modern, which allows entrepreneurs to optimize costs and delivery time. for the economy of a
country, Another factor that is outstanding in Switzerland is its supply of electricity quality that
optimally supplies all members of its population, while Colombia ranks 79th which means that
electricity does not is the best quality for Colombians in 2017 in Colombia there were some
470,000 homes that are not intercepted to an electricity grid, you can understand why Switzerland
is a world power with respect to Colombia in infrastructure issues, because it has a greater
economic growth a country that has the best possible state of roads that facilitates internal trade
to be able to project me way to international trade.

KEYWORDS

Global Competitiveness Index, infrastructure, Cluster analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA),

competition.
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