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  "pillarKey": "competitiveness",
  "title": "Competitiveness",
  "version": "706b82d36974",
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  "snapshotDate": "2026-10-18",
  "status": "partially-verified",
  "lastReviewed": "2024-12-01",
  "publisher": "American Bangladesh Foundation",
  "note": "Immutable snapshot. contentHash is SHA-256 over the key-sorted JSON of `content`. Cite the original publisher for any figure you reuse.",
  "content": {
    "key": "competitiveness",
    "rows": [
      {
        "country": "Bangladesh",
        "minWage": 113,
        "pppWage": 389,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      {
        "country": "Cambodia",
        "minWage": 208,
        "pppWage": 520,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      {
        "country": "Vietnam (low)",
        "minWage": 135,
        "pppWage": 460,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      {
        "country": "Vietnam (high)",
        "minWage": 152,
        "pppWage": 510,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      {
        "country": "Indonesia (low)",
        "minWage": 170,
        "pppWage": 440,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      {
        "country": "India",
        "minWage": 180,
        "pppWage": 470,
        "currency": "USD"
      }
    ],
    "highlights": [
      {
        "label": "BD Min. Wage",
        "value": "$113/mo",
        "delta": "Lowest among peers"
      },
      {
        "label": "BD PPP Wage",
        "value": "$389/mo",
        "delta": "USITC 2024"
      },
      {
        "label": "Gap vs. Vietnam",
        "value": "-$22/mo",
        "delta": "Narrowing"
      }
    ],
    "claims": [],
    "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-competitiveness-report-2019",
    "additionalSources": [
      {
        "name": "World Bank Doing Business",
        "url": "https://archive.doingbusiness.org"
      }
    ],
    "verification": {
      "registryStatus": "Partially Verified",
      "sourceVerified": false,
      "unverifiedFields": [
        "exportComplexityData.eciRank"
      ],
      "knownGaps": [
        "WEF GCI discontinued after 2019; subsequent data uses WB Business Ready Index",
        "Doing Business discontinued 2021 — methodology gap between series",
        "Export-complexity ECI ranks cannot be tied to a pinned publisher and vintage: Harvard Growth Lab and OEC disagree and both restate history each release (Harvard puts Bangladesh ~117–123 and Cambodia 77th against the 101 and 98 carried here). All five rows need re-pulling together from one chosen source-year (see competitivenessData.ts)"
      ]
    }
  }
}