INDIA # 78 : World’s Best 100 Countries. Kite Flying # 1 India is rank 78th among the world’s best 100 countries on the globe, after Spain (21st), Slovenia (24), Czech Republic (25), Portugal, Croatia, Chile, Slovakia, Estonia, Costa Rica, Lativia, Malaysia (37), Panama, Peru, Jamaica, Brazil, Ukraine, Belarus, Thailand (58), China (59), Srilanka (66), Indonesia (73), Honduras (76), Bolivia (77) !!!
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the model of what a political leader should be, says Mohamed El Baradei, former director general of International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA). Singh a sophisticated former economist, has played a key role in the country's emergence as one of the rising powers of the 21st century, engineering the transition from stagnant socialism to a spectacular takeoff in the global economy. But it's Singh's unassuming personal style that really inspires awe among his fellow global luminaries, who praise him for being modest, humble, and incorruptible. On sectors like Education, Health, Quality of Life, India is rated down on the scale with 87, 82 and 87 respectively. What is more surprising is the survey has rated India as a stable economy with 48th rank. Newsweek admits, they would be the first to admit that like any list, this one isn’t perfect. A recent study conducted by Newsweek magazine is based on data provided derived from CIA world fact book, World Bank, Vision of Humanity, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), World Health Organisation (WHO), World Economic Forum, Gender Gap, Global Insight, United Nations (UN) office on Drugs and Crime, Yale’s Environmental Performance Index, EIU, Freedom House and Political Risk Services. A Newsweek study on health, education, economy and politics ranks the globe’s true national champions, in which all the lies of our corrupt politicians are exposed. INDIA Overall Rank : 78 Score: 55.70 Region: South Asia Population: 1.2 billion (+) Education: ( # 87) Literacy rate- 61.4% (percentage of population able to read and write at a specified age; source:CIA world fact book) Average year of schooling: 10.3 % ( school life expectancy, in years, primary to tertiary; source: Vision of Humanity) In this sector India is superseded in ranking by Srilanka (66), Pakistan (86), whereas Bangladesh is on #95 Health: (# 82) 56years (Health life expectancy- average number of years a person lives in full length, taking into account years lived in less than full length; source: WHO) In this sector, Srilanka tops South Asian countries with #61 followed by India, Bangladesh (82) and Pakistan (85). Quality of Life ( #87) India’s quality of life ranking is fourth, after Srilanka (73), Pakistan (85) and Bangladesh ( 86) 36.8 %- Income inequality (Measure the degree of inequality in family income, Zero= perfect equality, 100= perfect inequality, source: UNDP) 0.615- Gender Gap (degree of economic, health and political inequality between sexes, Zero=inequality, 1= equality, source: World Economic Forum, Gender Gap) 75.60 % - ( percentage of population living on less than $ 2 per day at 2005 international prices; source: World Bank) $ 632- Consumption per capita ( private consumption divided by population; source: Global Insight) 5.5- Homicide per 100,000- source: from UN office on Drugs and Crime) 41.6 – Environmental Health ( Air/Water pollution and environmental burden of disease on human; source: Yale’s Environmental Performance Index) 10.7%- Unemployment rate- ( percentage of labour force without jobs; source- CIA world facts book, EIU) Economic Dynamism (#38) India leads in South Asian countries in this sector leaving behind Pakistan (62), Srilanka (69) and Bangladesh (88). $ 3100: Productive growth (GDP/capita at PPP, Average of GDP/ capita growth rate over last ten years, GDP/capita growth rate over next en years ( source; CIA world fact book, Global Insight) Expressed in incremental US $ of growth per person. 53.70 %: Services percentage of GDP ( Awards countries that are not heavily reliant upon agriculture and/or natural resources; sources- World Bank, Global Insight) 14.69 %: Manufacturing percentage of GDP ( Awards countries that are not heavily reliant upon manufacturing; sources: World Bank, Global Insight) 3.73- Innovative Index (World Economic Forum’s Innovative Index. Evalutes a country’s willingness to invest in knowledge-building efforts. 133- Ease of doing business: (Ranks economies, from 1 to 183, on regulatory environment’s conducsiveness to business operation, with first place being the best. Source: World Bank) 7.0 years - Time of resolve insolvency ( Number of years from the filing for insolvency in court until the resolution of distressed assets. Source: World Bank) 30 days - New business start time ( Number of calendar days needed to complete the procedures to legally operate business. Source: World Bank) Chinese, Indian, and Russian companies are counted among the worlds most corrupt, according to Transparency International’s Bribe Payer Index. Political Environment ( # 48) Political environment in India is better than its neighbour Srilanka (69), Bangladesh (76) and Pakistan (99). 2.5- Freedom house rating- based on electoral process, political participation, functioning government, freedom of expression and belief, associational and organizational rights, rule of law and personal autonomy and individual rights. 1= most free, 7= least free. Source: Freedom House) 5.56. - Political participation ( Qualitative assessment of voters participation / turnout for national elections, citizens engagement with politics. 0=very low, 10= very high. Source: EIU Democracy index) 63.5 - Political stability ( independent rating of political risk faced by governments, corporations and investors, higher rating= more stable. Source: Polictical Risk Services) Though Ghana (pictured) may not have a stellar economy, its political environment is the best among low-income countries like India, In NEWSWEEK’s first-ever Best Countries special issue, they have claimed to set out to answer a question that is at once simple and incredibly complex—if you were born today, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life? Many organizations measure various aspects of national competitiveness. But none attempt to put them all together. For this special survey, then, NEWSWEEK chose five categories of national well-being—education, health, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and political environment—and compiled metrics within these categories across 100 nations. A weighted formula yielded an overall list of the world’s top 100 countries. With bad ranking, India has a good ranking in Kite flying. Flying a kite from the roof is part of everyday life in India. But each year, on Jan. 14, an international kite festival, Makar Sankranti, draws more than 1 million enthusiasts from 36 countries. The effort took several months, during which Newsweek received copious aid from an advisory board that included Nobel laureate and Columbia University professor Joseph E. Stiglitz; McKinsey & Co. Social Sector Office director Byron Auguste; McKinsey Global Institute director James Manyika; Jody Heymann, the founding director of McGill University’s Institute for Health and Social Policy and a professor at the university; and Geng Xiao, director of Columbia's Global Center for East Asia. 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