Venezuela: Economic growth competiveness index

The Growth Competitiveness Index (GCI), aims to quantify the quality of the macroeconomic environment, the state of a countrys public institutions, and its level of technological readiness.

Higher competitiveness scores are more desirable:

• Very High 5.51 to 7
• High 4.51 to 5.50
• Moderate 3.51 to 4.50
• Low - 3.01 to 3.50
• Very Low 0 to 3.00

Source: World Economic Forum

Venezuela has no house price statistics, but there are construction cost time-series at the Banco Central de Venezuela site, which also has general statistics. There are also statistics at the Instituto Nacional de Estadist�ca under the Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Planificaci�n y Desarrollo.