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International Benchmarking & Openness of Cities

UCLG, Durban14 June 2011

Prof. Dr. Urs MüllerDirektor BAKBASEL

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What do we want to know?

Are we better than … ?

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Why benchmarking?

What can be benchmarked?

What is your economic performance?

What are your location factors?

Does openness matter?

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Note In US$ per hour worked (at current prices and exchange rates)Source BAKBASEL

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Economic performance profile of Madrid

Note Position of Madrid within the benchmarking sample (for each indicator, percentiles) Higher values indicate a better performance

Source BAKBASEL

GDP per Capita

Real GDP growth per Capita

Population growth

Real GDP growth

Employment growth

Labour productivity

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Hourly productivity

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Global and continental accessibility

Note Index (average accessibility of regions 2002 = 100), 2008Source BAKBASEL, IVT

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Research for innovation: Quality of universities

Note Total scores of all Universities in region in the Shanghai Index per 1’000 inhabitants, 2009Source BAKBASEL

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Economic attractiveness profile of Madrid

Note Position of Madrid within the benchmarking sample (for each indicator, percentiles) Higher values indicate a better performance

Source BAKBASEL

Taxation (Companies)

Taxation (Manpower)

Accessibility (Global)

Accessibility (Continental)

Regulation (Product Market)

Regulation (Labour Market)

Universities quality: TS per 100'000 inhabitants

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Softer factors are becoming more relevant

Quality of Livingsum of all factors making life more or less convenient

Diversityfact, that a city has people with different nationality, origin, language or religion/belief

Opennesscapacity to attract international populations and to enable them to contribute to the future success of the city

Interculturalityapproach to integration in cities with culturally diverse populations, encouraging greater mixing and interaction between diverse groups in the public spaces.

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How to measure openness: OPENCities Monitor

Values above/below 100 indicate that the performance of Cape Town in an area is better/worse than the sample average.

Cape Town is above the average in the following areas:

Migration

Education

Cape Town performs particularly lower than the average in:

Barriers of entry

Infrastructure

results for Cape Town results for selected cities sample

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Do you know how good you are?

You better do!