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Results just published by the Swiss business school IMD, not only suggest that socialist countries are weathering the present recession better than outright capitalist ones like the US, but they also indicate that they are likely to recover much faster too.

The rankings are based on twenty criteria, then divided into four categories:

Economy Forecast/Perspectives – Government – Business – Society

Economic forecasts.

Government stability.

Which society is better equipped to weather the present global financial crisis.

The stability of the business sector.

Denmark achieved the highest overall score of 100 and is followed by Singapore, Qatar, Norway, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Sweden.

The United States finished a fairly shocking, overall 28th, due in part to its perceived weakness of resistance to the financial crisis.

Perhaps surprisingly, Israel (20) not only precedes the US, Germany and Britain on the list, but also leads Taiwan (21), Germany (24), Japan (26), South Korea (29) and Britain (34).

In spite of Britain’s poor score it still fared better than France (44), Italy (47) and Spain (50).

Singapore led the ranking of governmental steps taken in order to eradicate the crisis, while Italy came in last.

Russia ranked 51st and was followed only by Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Ukraine, Argentina, and Venezuela, which finished last.

You can download the report directly from IMD at Stress Test Rankings or if their link goes bad for some reason you can get it here,

Our Changing Globe, Stress Test Rankings.

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