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Hot Spots - Benchmarking Global City Competitiveness

Economist Intelligence Unit

The Economist Intelligence Unit's Global City Competitiveness Report 2012. Hot spots is an Economist Intelligence Unit research programme, commissioned by Citigroup, which ranks the competitiveness of 120 of the world's major cities.

Top Rankings

Toronto ranked in the top five cities in North America
1st in Financial Maturity

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Categories: Business Environment, Finance

Cities of Opportunity

Pricewaterhousecoopers

Toronto ranks as the second most promising city of opportunity among the 26 global cities compared within this study.

Toronto ranks as:

2^nd most promising city of opportunity cities
2^nd for intellectual property and innovation
2^nd for health, safety and security
3^rd in demographics and livability

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Categories: Quality of Life

FDI American Cities of the Future

fDi Intelligence, a division of the Financial Times Ltd

In the first ever fDi ranking of cities across the American continents, Toronto placed highly in the following categories.

Toronto ranks:

Top Ten - American Cities of the Future
Top Ten - Major Cities of the Future
Top Ten - Major Cities, Economic Potential
Top Ten - Major Cities, FDI Strategy
Top Ten - Major Cities, Infrastructure
Top Ten - Major Cities, Quality of Life

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Categories: Business Toronto

Global Competitiveness Report

World Economic Forum

Canada ranked 12th out of 142 countries on the 2011/12 Global Competitiveness Index (World Economic Forum). For the 4th year in a row Canada was found to have the soundest banking system in the world.

Key rankings:

Number of procedures to start a business – 1^st
Soundness of banks – 1^st
Quality of Management
schools – 4^th
Availability of financial services – 5^th
Availability of scientists and engineers – 7^th

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Categories: Business Environment

Innovation Cities Top 100 Index 2011 City Rankings

2thinknow

Toronto moved up two places on this year’s Index into the top 10 globally. The Innovation Cities Top Cities ranks the top cities in the world as innovation destinations. In 2011 the top Nexus cities (10% of all benchmark cities), Hub cities (next 20%) and selected Node cities are ranked.

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Categories: Business Environment

Global Financial Centres Index 10

Qatar Financial Centre Authority

The GFCI provides profiles, ratings and rankings for 75 financial centres. The aim of the GFCI is to examine the major financial centres globally in terms of competitiveness. The GFCI has been published every six months (although the index is actually produced every three months).

Toronto rankings in the:

Top 10 – globally on the GFCI 10
Top 10 – for Asset Management
Top 10 – for Banking
Top 10 – for Insurance
Top 10 – for Professional Services
Top 10 – for Wealth management/ private banking

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Categories: Global Hub

Forbes Best Countries for Business

Forbes

Canada ranks No. 1 overall in Forbes annual look at the Best Countries for Business. The Best Countries for Business looks at 11 different factors for 134 countries. The factors including in the study are property rights, innovation, taxes, technology, corruption, freedom (personal, trade, and monetary), red tape, investor protection and stock market performance.

Rankings:

Personal Freedom – 1st
Red Tape – 3rd
Investor Protection – 5th
Corruption 6th
Trade Freedom – 7th
Tax Burden 9th
Property Rights - 9th
Innovation – 15th
Technology – 15th
Market Performance – 20th
Monetary Freedom 39th

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Categories: Global Hub

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