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Vienna has beaten Zurich to be crowned the place with the best quality of living in an annual survey in which European cities dominated the top 10.
Management consultancy Mercer said Vienna scored the highest for overall quality of living in the 215-city survey after improvements in Austria's political and social environment, knocking the Swiss city of Zurich into second position.
Third in the list came another Swiss city, Geneva, followed by Vancouver, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand, in shared fourth place.
Baghdad, Iraq, came last despite slight improvements in its infrastructure and moves to encourage investment.
Three German cities made the top 10 -- Dusseldorf, Munich and Frankfurt -- with the list rounded out by Bern in Switzerland and Sydney, Australia.
The highest U.S. ranking in the 2009 Worldwide Quality of Living Survey was Honolulu which came 29th while Washington and New York remained in positions 44 and 49 respectively.
London came 38th in the list which is designed to help governments and companies formulate international packages for their employees.
"As a result of the current financial crisis, multinationals are looking to review their international assignment policies with a view to cutting costs," said Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer, in a statement.
"Many companies plan to reduce the number of medium to long-term international assignments and localize their expatriate compensation packages where possible though the hardship allowance, based on quality of living criteria, will remain an essential component of the package."
Singapore was the top-scoring Asian city, coming in 26th which was up six places from a year ago due to its growing importance as a financial center and its wide range of international and private schools.
Beijing moved up three places to 113, boosted by improvements in public transport facilities from the Olympics last August.
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在一年一度的全球城市生活質(zhì)量調(diào)查中，維也納擊敗蘇黎世當(dāng)選全球生活質(zhì)量最佳的城市。排行榜的前十位多為歐洲城市所占據(jù)。
據(jù)美世管理咨詢公司介紹，這項(xiàng)調(diào)查共有215個(gè)城市參評(píng)，維也納在總體生活質(zhì)量方面得分最高，瑞士的蘇黎世屈居第二，這都得益于奧地利政治和社會(huì)環(huán)境的改善。
瑞士的另一個(gè)城市日內(nèi)瓦位居第三，加拿大的溫哥華與新西蘭的奧克蘭并列第四。
盡管伊拉克首都巴格達(dá)的基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施略有改善，并正采取措施鼓勵(lì)投資，但在今年的排行中仍墊底。
躋身排行榜前十位的其它幾個(gè)城市包括：德國(guó)的三大城市——杜塞爾多夫、慕尼黑和法蘭克福以及瑞典的伯爾尼和澳大利亞的悉尼。
在“2009全球城市生活質(zhì)量”排行榜上，排名最靠前的美國(guó)城市是位居第29位的檀香山；華盛頓和紐約保持原位，分列第44位和第49位。
倫敦名列第38位，該排行榜旨在幫助政府和公司制定外派員工的薪酬。
美世咨詢的高級(jí)研究員斯拉金?帕拉卡迪爾在一份聲明中說(shuō)：“由于受目前金融危機(jī)的影響，跨國(guó)公司希望能重審他們的海外派遣計(jì)劃，以削減成本。”
“很多公司計(jì)劃削減中長(zhǎng)期海外派遣計(jì)劃，并在可能的地方將外派員工的薪酬本地化，不過(guò)基于生活標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的困難津貼仍將是薪酬中的主要部分。”
新加坡在亞洲城市中排名最高，位居第26位，比去年上升了六個(gè)榜位，這主要是因?yàn)樾录悠伦鳛榻鹑谥行牡牡匚蝗遮呏匾宜鼡碛斜姸嗟膰?guó)際和私立學(xué)校。
北京也上升了三個(gè)榜位，名列第113位，這主要是因?yàn)槿ツ?月的奧運(yùn)會(huì)對(duì)北京的公共交通設(shè)施起到了一定的改善作用。
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