Global Talent Competitive Index – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #648

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Introduction

The eighth edition of Global Talent Competitiveness Index – GTCI – 2021 has been published. This year it has been co-produced by INSEAD, France, and Portulans Institute, a think-tank based in Washington, DC, and Geneva.

GTCI measures talent along set parameters in various countries of the world, which more or less remain the same. In the 2021 report, 134 countries are included. The complete report has 328 pages and those interested may follow the link at the end to see the full report.

DEEPER LOOK AT PAKISTAN AND ITS NEIGHBORS

Given below are five countries: Pakistan and its four neighbors. We shall see how these compare on the parameters listed in the last post.

Turkey is at #76
India is at #88
Iran is at #100
Pakistan is at #107
Bangladesh is at #123

I have extracted more detail from the GTCI report and tabulated it here in two tables.

Table 1 gives the total scores of five countries. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh come from the same stock, but are going on separate trajectories. Iran has been under war, sanctions, and hardships since many years. Turkey is part of EU and fairly developed.

Table 2 is much more detailed. It is ranking on all pillars/ sub-pillars, and variables. The comparative analysis becomes easier, which I shall do in the next post.

Table 1

Country	GTCI Ranking	Enable	Attract	Grow	Retain	VT Skills	GK Skills
Turkey	76	75	119	42	79	95	57
India	88	69	121	71	95	99	58
Iran	100	116	133	77	104	91	68
Pakistan	107	109	120	86	111	108	95
Bangladesh	123	119	127	123	114	116	128

Table 2

Pillars/ Sub-pillars/ Variables	Turkey	India	Iran	Pakistan	Bangladesh
GTCI Ranking	76	88	100	107	123
*Enable*	75	69	*116*	*109*	*119*
Regulatory Landscape	87	76	127	124	117
Government Effectiveness	69	59	99	108	112
Rule of Law	77	54	109	106	104
Political Stability	123	105	129	133	113
Regulatory Quality	71	80	130	109	124
Corruption	69	69	118	102	117
Market Landscape	43	76	70	95	115
Extent of market dominance	58	74	33	72	115
Ease of doing business	31	60	107	94	129
Cluster development	58	43	85	53	78
R&D expenditure	39	51	44	89	n/a
ICT infrastructure	53	73	81	95	101
Urbanization	44	118	46	110	112
Business & Labor Landscape	98	54	129	92	119
Labor rights	95	n/a	n/a	91	99
Labor-employee cooperation	108	86	125	114	93
Professional management	71	48	126	90	92
Relationship of pay to productivity	80	62	123	69	77
Technology utilization	66	50	118	73	81
Investment in emerging technologies	103	26	102	48	98
Firms with websites	64	72	n/a	76	106



*Attract*	*119*	*121*	*133*	*120*	*127*
External Openness	95	102	128	78	120
FDI and technology transfer	73	52	95	74	101
Prevalence of foreign ownership	111	58	132	98	109
Migrant stock	51	123	79	85	106
International students	79	109	93	n/a	110
Brain gain	116	69	129	72	71
Internal Openness	126	123	131	129	125
Tolerance to minorities	128	106	119	115	110
Tolerance to immigrants	94	82	98	107	71
Social mobility	84	61	121	95	85
Women in tertiary education	102	92	101	106	116
Women in high-skilled jobs	107	126	110	128	119
Business leadership opportunities for women	115	113	131	110	105
*Grow*	42	71	77	86	*123*
Formal education	19	59	51	72	107
Vocational enrolment	5	n/a	64	n/a	81
Tertiary enrolment	2	88	46	114	93
Tertiary education expenditure	n/a	86	69	78	106
Reading math and science	40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
University ranking	37	30	32	46	78
Lifelong Learning	59	47	73	51	125
Business and economic subject ranking	44	51	28	43	70
Prevalence of training in firms	57	44	n/a	51	80
Employee development	101	54	127	80	123
Formal and non-formal education and 70training	40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Access to growth opportunities	70	108	104	117	116
Delegation of authority	65	76	128	102	120
Youth inclusion	96	99	101	103	88
Use of virtual social networks	55	104	98	112	107
Use of virtual professional networks	62	98	n/a	109	115
*Retain*	79	95	*104*	*111*	*114*
Sustainability	54	89	100	105	113
Pension coverage	1	85	101	125	89
Social protection	41	88	73	63	124
Brain retention	102	23	106	42	84
Environmental performance	84	127	62	114	124
Lifestyle	96	97	98	117	109
Personal rights	125	83	119	115	108
Personal safety	96	91	98	120	80
Physician density	73	89	81	87	99
Sanitation	52	105	78	104	112
*Vocational and Technical Skills – VT Skills*	95	99	91	*108*	*116*
Mid-level skills	77	107	83	115	116
Secondary – educated workforce	96	114	90	104	101
Secondary – educated population	78	91	65	83	77
Technicians and associate professionals	77	98	85	103	119
Labor productivity	24	90	63	112	110
Employability	105	78	94	83	109
Ease of finding skilled employees	91	83	93	71	111
Relevance of education system to the economy	98	46	118	40	89
Skills match	n/a	77	52	88	82
*Global Knowledge Skills – GK Skills*	57	58	68	95	*128*
Higher-level skills	60	69	53	97	114
Tertiary educated workforce	53	93	48	105	112
Tertiary educated population	61	82	43	89	80
Professionals	61	117	65	110	115
Researchers	44	77	42	73	n/a
Senior officials and managers	42	20	74	90	99
Availability of scientists and engineers	90	20	33	58	83
Talent Impact	55	47	77	97	131
Innovation output	52	44	49	87	113
High-value exports	92	46	116	98	121
New product entrepreneurial activity	22	3	66	32	90
New business density	64	111	98	114	117
Scientific journal articles	47	80	41	87	104

I shall ask you to make your own inferences. I shall do the analysis in the next post.

To be Continued…….

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The Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2021 (insead.edu)