A survey of 13,500 business leaders worldwide showed executives see Ireland's banking sector and government inefficiency as the two factors most damaging to the Irish economy.

[...] The WEF is a non-governmental organisation best known for its annual get-together of bigwigs from business, finance and politics at Davos in Switzerland. Its annual competitiveness report is researched and published by a panel of academics headed by US-based Xavier Sala-i-Martin, a professor at Columbia University [...]

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