Regional snapshots: SME competitiveness and export potential when standards matter

Competitiveness scores vary greatly both across and within regions. Figure 52 presents an overview of the performance of regions’ capacity to compete, connect and change. As the category ‘other’ is composed mostly of developed countries, this report refers to this category as developed countries. Furthermore, developing countries are split according to geographical location 206. Thus, when the report refers to the Asia-Pacific region, it concerns developing countries in this geographical area. These groupings depart from the ones used in the 2015 SME Competitiveness Outlook, and thus may be responsible for slight variations in the regional statistics between the editions.

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