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International Benchmarking & Openness of Cities

Explore the importance of benchmarking and openness of cities, including economic performance, location factors, GDP per capita, and more. Discover how OpenCities Monitor measures openness and compare the results for Cape Town and selected cities.

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International Benchmarking & Openness of Cities

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  1. International Benchmarking & Openness of Cities UCLG, Durban 14 June 2011 Prof. Dr. Urs Müller Direktor BAKBASEL

  2. What do we want to know? Are we better than … ?

  3. Content • Why benchmarking? • What can be benchmarked? • What is your economic performance? • What are your location factors? • Does openness matter?

  4. GDP per capita Note In 1'000 US$ (at current prices and exchange rates) Source BAKBASEL

  5. Employment growth Note In % p.a. Source BAKBASEL

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

  7. 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

  8. Global and continental accessibility Note Index (average accessibility of regions 2002 = 100), 2008 Source BAKBASEL, IVT

  9. Tax burden for companies and manpower

  10. Research for innovation: Quality of universities Note Total scores of all Universities in region in the Shanghai Index per 1’000 inhabitants, 2009 Source BAKBASEL

  11. 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

  12. 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. • … and more

  13. 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

  14. Do you know how good you are? You better do!

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