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The Concept of Competitiveness is considerable from The micro and macro points of views. The present study in regard to the meanings of competitiveness is concentrating on a few distinctions First on The meaning's of competitiveness in the evolutionary ideology of comparative advantage and also dynamic comparative advantage in today's world has been considered by trade economists. In most studies, Competitive Compound index has been Categorized based on its determining Factors.
But in this particular study, in addition to determining factors, the effects of the above mentioned indexes on factors of product function have been also considered. Because the original approach of this study is based on the fact that factors of comparativeness and ultimately to economic growth by the variables of the product function. 



Therefore in this study, first there has been a brief review over  Comparative advantage theory, dynamic Comparative advantage, and comparative advantage, then several different definitions of comparatives Competitiveness will be presented, and then by reviewing experimental studies in regard to competitiveness.
 The indexes of labor competitiveness, Capital, and technology will be introduced and then by the method of numerical taxonomy for 57 countries during 1995 to 2003, the above mentioned indexes will be calculated.
It is notable that Iran has never been considered in any of the competitiveness studies in the world and these calculations has never been done for Iran.
In this study Iran's rank in reported indexes has been calculated and Iran's competitiveness place among the countries of the world has been determined. For evaluation of calculated index, one aggregated index from the 3 mentioned indexes has been calculated, and compared with the indexes of other studies.

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