Canada: the third-best nation for business
As the old saying goes: you can only do so much business in Armenia.
In Canada, we’ve been looking for a sliver of hope in this economy for a while. A flicker, even. Anything will do.
Well, how’s this?
As bad as we thought things had gotten, hopes for Canada’s quick recovery received a nice stamp of approval recently, our nation ranking third on Forbes’ annual Best Countries For Business list.
In fact, Canada was one of only two countries west of Europe to crack the top 10.
Denmark took the top spot for the second year in a row, followed by the United States (up two spots from last year), Canada (up four), Singapore (up four) and New Zealand (up seven).
The U.K., Sweden, Australia, Hong Kong and Norway rounded out the rest of the top 10, in order.
The highest-profile slide this year? Ireland, which is down 12 spots to no. 14. And, geez it’s hard not to make alcohol parallels here, but Forbes blames the slump on a Guinness mega-brewery being shelved after exports slowed and parent company Diageo put the plans on ice.
Other fallers include Uruguay, which fell 22 spots (to no. 66), Latvia (down 13 spots to no. 45) and Armenia – poor, poor Armenia – is down 31 spots to no. 94.
And while things haven’t been good for many nations on that Forbes roundup, it’s certainly better for your country to appear on that list than this one.
By Jason Buckland, MSN Money
Posted by: Malcolm Mansfield | Oct 2, 2021 9:34:05 AM
Uru guay, Latvia, Armenia??? These are countries people deal with if they have relatives there. What about the real emerging countries like China, India and Africa?