The Evaluation And Assessment Of The Sub - Continent Countries In Terms Of Global Competitiveness Indices Compared To Iran

The Competitiveness Index is measured and published annually by the World Economic Forum for a significant number of countries. In this regard, the main purpose of this study is to "measure and assess the position of Indian subcontinent countries in terms of competitiveness indicators compared to Iran", in the period 2016 to 2018. The type of applied research and its method is descriptive-analytical. Sharon's entropy techniques, Vikor, Moran's global spatial self-correlation statistics, and the Arc Gis software were used to analyze the data. The results of this study in terms of the study of global competitiveness indicators during the period under study showed that India is in the first place and Bhutan is in the last place. Iran, with a score of 0.305, 0.336 and 0.327, has the second place, respectively. Also, the results of the change coefficient model (c.v) showed that the level of inequality of countries in having the studied indicators has been declining over the past three years. The main question of the research is what is the situation of Iran in terms of global competitiveness indicators compared to quasi-continental countries?