The World Economic Forum , an organization that brings together the world’s top government and business leaders to discuss the state of the world’s economy, meets annually in Davos, Switzerland. For 20 years, the Forum has published its annual competitiveness report comparing the economic, political, and business climates of countries throughout the world. Since 2001, the methodology used in this report has been based on a model developed for the World Economic Forum by noted economists Jeffrey Sachs and John McArthur. It is called the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI).