MANAMA: Bahrain has been ranked among top 10 countries in 56 indicators, as mentioned the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2022 issued by the Global Competitiveness Centre of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD).
The GDN was the first to report on June 16 about Bahrain’s inclusion in the IMD World Competitiveness Ranking for the first time in the ranking’s 34-year history.
The IMD rankings assesses the efficiency of countries in managing their resources to achieve prosperity.
According to the report, the most prominent aspects of Bahrain’s competitiveness include skills of the workforce, as the kingdom ranked fourth in the world in the managers efficiency index and fifth globally in the workforce skill.
The kingdom also ranked seventh globally in indicators related to financial skills, qualified engineers and international expertise, and eighth globally in high skills of foreign workers, which confirms the great attention paid to human resources and the high professional skills of the workforce that contribute to attracting various investments to the kingdom.
Labour Minister Jameel Humaidan praised Bahrain’s performance and competitiveness at the global level, according to the results of the World Competitiveness Yearbook.
He said Bahrain boasts specialised national workers, equipped with professional skills, which is the result of the direct interest paid by the government, led by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, to develop human resources and provide the necessary support to qualify national cadres and make them the best choice for employment, in addition to developing the training infrastructure and strengthening the kingdom’s position as a regional training hub.
Supreme Council for Women (SCW) secretary general Hala Al Ansari said the kingdom’s policies to upgrade the outputs of national efforts to reach the highest development levels have achieved their goals, particularly with regard to the advancement of women and raising the levels of their national competitiveness.
Ms Al Ansari made the statements following the inclusion of the kingdom in the World Competitiveness Yearbook.
She said these results are the positive outcome of sound planning, management and effective follow-up of the national plans and programmes implemented by the SCW. She added that such positive results prove the SCW’s success in becoming a specialised entity in the field of women, making the kingdom an important centre for gender balance and equal opportunities.
Ms Al Ansari lauded the co-operation between the SCW and the government, represented by the Finance and National Economy Ministry, in following up on the competitiveness indicators of Bahraini women and comparing them with global performance, noting that the kingdom’s outstanding results in this report and others are proof of the success of such efforts.
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