Barriers and Opportunities for Enhancing Capital Flows
In the COMCEC Member Countries
114
 Very low: if lower than 88
 Low: if between 89 and 93
 Moderate: if between 94 and 100
 High: if between 101 and 115
 Very high: if more than 115
9. Assess the availability and quality of local managerial staff
 Very good  Good  Fair  Poor  Very poor
10. Assess the degree to which language skills of the
workforce meet the needs of business
 Very high  High  Moderate  Low 
Very low
If English is the native language score 5, except if there is
evidence that poor foreign language skills of the workforce
have had an adverse impact on business
11. The health of the workforce (based on average life
expectancy)
 Very good: if life expectancy higher than 77
 Good: if between 75 and 77
 Moderate: if between 70 and 74.9
 Poor: if between 65 and 69.9
 Very poor: if less than 65
12. The technical skills of the workforce
 Abundant supply, at a reasonable cost, of technically
skilled professionals; full range of training and development
programmes
 Reasonable supply of technically skilled labour; some
availability of training and development programmes
 Technically skilled available but at a high price;
training for fraction of workforce. Older workers resistant to
new technology
 Widespread shortage of technical skills; few technical
education opportunities
 Multinationals need to import all but the most basic
technical skills
Xa ICT infrastructure
X Infrastructure