Transcript Theme three - Open Cities

International Benchmarking
& Openness of Cities
UCLG, Durban
14 June 2011
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Prof. Dr. Urs Müller
Direktor BAKBASEL
What do we want to know?
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Are we better than … ?
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Content
 Why benchmarking?
 What can be benchmarked?
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What is your economic performance?
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What are your location factors?
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Does openness matter?
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Source
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In 1'000 US$ (at current prices and exchange rates)
BAKBASEL
Sp
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2000
lin
70
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Gr
Fr
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te
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rid
TE
RN
La
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RO
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Ca
ta
lu
ña
M
et
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GDP per capita
80
2009
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
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In % p.a.
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La
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Employment growth
5.0%
4.5%
90-00
00-09
4.0%
3.5%
3.0%
2.5%
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.0%
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Ar
ea
2000
In US$ per hour worked (at current prices and exchange rates)
BAKBASEL
lin
80
Be
r
90
La
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M
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no
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Gr
Fr
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Ile
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Hourly productivity
100
2009
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
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Economic performance profile of Madrid
--
25%
50%
GDP per Capita
Real GDP growth per Capita
Macro Performance
Population growth
Real GDP growth
Employment growth
Labour productivity
Real labour productivity growth
Hourly productivity
Real hourly productivity growth
Madrid
Note
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Position of Madrid within the benchmarking sample (for each indicator, percentiles)
Higher values indicate a better performance
BAKBASEL
75%
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Global and continental accessibility
170
Greater Brussels
160
continental
150
Metropolitan Stuttgart
Milano
FrankfurtRheinMain
Ile de France
Greater London
140
Metropolitan Munich
Berlin
130
Vienna
120
Cataluña
Lazio
Madrid
110
100
Stockholm
Greater Dublin Area
90
102
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104
106
108
110
Index (average accessibility of regions 2002 = 100), 2008
BAKBASEL, IVT
112
global
114
116
118
120
122
Tax burden for companies and manpower
220
USA
210
FR
ES
190
Average of Included Swiss Cantons = 100
Effective Tax Burden of Companies,
200
180
170
UK DE
160
150
140
130
IT
NO
LUX
CN
AT
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NL
FI
DK SE
120
SLO HU
110
ZHPL
SK 100
CZ
SGP40
30
50
60
70
ZG
80
90 90100
80
110
120
130
IR
140
150
160
170
70
HK
60
50
Effective Tax Burden of Highly Qualified Employees (Single, € 100,000),
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Average of Included Swiss Cantons = 100
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BEL
180
190
200
Research for innovation: Quality of universities
0.045
0.04
0.035
0.03
0.025
0.02
0.015
0.01
0.005
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Total scores of all Universities in region in the Shanghai Index per 1’000 inhabitants, 2009
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Economic attractiveness profile of Madrid
Taxation
--
25%
50%
Taxation (Companies)
Accessibility
Accessibility (Global)
Regulation
Taxation (Manpower)
Regulation (Product Market)
Accessibility (Continental)
Regulation (Labour Market)
Innovation
Universities quality: TS per 100'000 inhabitants
Patent density
Publication density
Expenditures on research and development
Madrid
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Position of Madrid within the benchmarking sample (for each indicator, percentiles)
Higher values indicate a better performance
BAKBASEL
75%
++
Softer factors are becoming more relevant
 Quality of Living
sum of all factors making life more or less convenient
 Diversity
fact, that a city has people with different nationality, origin, language or religion/belief
 Openness
capacity to attract international populations and to enable them to contribute to the
future success of the city
 Interculturality
approach to integration in cities with culturally diverse populations, encouraging
greater mixing and interaction between diverse groups in the public spaces.
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 … and more
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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:
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Barriers of entry
Infrastructure
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 results for Cape Town
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 results for selected cities sample
Do you know how good you are?
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You better do!
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