US recaptures 'competition crown'
The US has regained its title as the world's most competitive economy, according to an influential survey by the World Economic Forum (WEF).So what is this survey base upon?
The results are based on criteria such as economic stability, market size, innovation, education and health.Japan is 8th and the UK 9th. Other notables from the results:
Canada 13th
Israel 17th
France 18th
China 34th
Mexico 49th
Russia 55th
So how is the twit Hugo Chavez doing with the Socialist Workers Paradise of Venezuela, you ask? Venezuela is 90th (down from 85th last year), just behind that economic juggernaut of Moldova. Zimbabwe is 129th and sinking.
Meanwhile, Chavez rushes full-steam ahead to wreck his country.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will seek to break up 69 proposed changes to the constitution into separate blocks for voter approval, abandoning an earlier plan to put them all into a single up-or-down ballot.More on Chavez here.
While he still supports a single vote on his initial ideas -- such as eliminating term limits for the president and cutting the work day to six hours -- changes added by the National Assembly, such as guaranteeing gay rights, cutting the voting age to 16 and eliminating due process in states of emergency, may be best voted on separately, he said today in a speech.
``These proposals could well be voted on in blocks, as the constitution requires,'' Chavez said at an event celebrating the anniversary of his state-sponsored women's organization.
Mounting resistance to the constitutional plan from political opponents, students and even some lawmakers who previously supported the president's so-called socialist revolution, may have prompted Chavez to pull back from his original strategy, said Liliana Fasciani, a legal philosophy professor at the Andres Bello Catholic University in Caracas.
``He's trying to soften his proposal,'' she said in a telephone interview.
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