The Economic Times (India):
How performance-based rankings are shaking up the rigid world of government
28 January 2018
Rankings inform the world who is the biggest, the richest, the happiest, the saddest, the most powerful or the most successful. In the 1990s, Stephen Nickell at the Centre for Economic Performance in the London School of Economics and Political Science, led a research to find out what boosts productivity. It found out that tougher and intense competition provided a large and persistent boost to a firm's productivity.