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- ItemRestrictedMeasuring our competitiveness: A critical examination of the IMD and WEF competitiveness indicators for South Africa(2003) Kaplan, David EThis article examines the competitiveness indicators that are produced by the highly influential World Economic Forum (WEF) and the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), specifically in respect of South Africa. Neither provides a clear and persuasive guide as to South Africa's overall competitiveness ranking, nor how this has altered over time. The problem resides principally in the assessment of technological capacities and the contribution that technology makes to overall competitiveness. The IMD and the WEF approaches to technology diverge significantly, but both are inadequate. As a consequence, there is a substantial discrepancy between the two as regards South Africa's current overall competitiveness ranking. Neither individually, nor collectively, are these competitiveness indicators – as they are currently constituted – useful as a guide to policy.