Global Competitiveness Report

Published by the World Economic Forum, the Global Competitiveness Report is an annual assessment evaluating the structural drivers of productivity, growth, and long-term economic resilience across nations.

• It offers a standardized comparative framework for assessing India's structural progress across critical pillars such as institutional quality, infrastructure, and technological readiness.
• The report's diagnostic parameters provide empirical backing for evaluating policy interventions like PM Gati Shakti, labor code rationalization, and ease of doing business initiatives in GS Paper III.
• It helps identify systemic vulnerabilities in India's growth trajectory, specifically regarding human capital development, research and development spending, and factor market rigidities.

In Prelims, UPSC tests the releasing organization, core pillars, and relative indicator framework of the Global Competitiveness Index. For Mains, questions require using the index's parameters to analyze India's manufacturing competitiveness, trade integration bottlenecks, and required structural economic reforms.

• Indian Economy GS3

• Corruption Perceptions Index
• Ease of Doing Business Index
• Economic Survey
• Environmental Performance Index
• Global Gender Gap Report
• Global Hunger Index
• Global Innovation Index
• Human Development Report
• SDG India Index
• World Happiness Report