A worker in a factory in Vietnam (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Vietnam ranked96th out of 132 countries and territories in the 2020 Global Talent CompetitiveIndex (GTCI), dropping five places compared to the previous year.
According to the rankings, the gap betweenVietnam and those with high income in digital skills, especially artificialintelligence (AI), has grown significantly.
Grouped in the Eastern/South-Eastern Asia& Oceania, Vietnam was ranked 59th in Global Knowledge (GK) Skills, up 10places from 2019.
Meanwhile, the country fell to the 105th spotfrom last year’s 91st in Attract, and stood at the 117th place in Vocationaland Training (VT) Skills.
The 2020 GTCI report introduces a newvariable named “Technology Adoption” in “Enable”, which provides a measure ofhow countries use and invest in new technologies, including AI.
The report, published by the BusinessSchool for the World (INSEAD), in partnership with the Adecco Group and Google,is a comprehensive annual benchmarking measuring how countries and cities grow,attract and retain talent, providing a unique resource for decision-makers tounderstand the global talent competitiveness picture and develop strategies forboosting their competitiveness.
It measures levels of Global TalentCompetitiveness by looking at 70 variables. The 2020 index covers 132 nationaleconomies and 155 cities (respectively 125 and 114 in 2019) across all groupsof income and levels of development./.
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