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In spite of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report which is increasingly identifying environmental pressures as the dominant risks to humanity, none of the indicators used to determine this report's competitiveness ranking reflect any of the countries' environmental dimensions such as energy, water, climate risks, resource or food security, etc.
The rankings of national happiness are based on a happiness measurement survey undertaken world-wide by the polling company Gallup, Inc.Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10, and the worst possible life being a 0.
The World Competitiveness Yearbook is an annual report published by the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) on the competitiveness of nations and has been published since 1989. [1] The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 63 countries based on 340 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness.
In this year’s World Happiness Report, the U.S. fell from No. 15 to No. 23 on the list. This is the first time the U.S. has not been one of the top 20 happiest places in the report’s history.
The infrastructure factors account for the price and availability of office space at the location, as well as public transport. The financial sector development factors assess the volume and value of trading in capital markets and other financial markets , the cluster effect of the number of different financial service companies at the location ...
As of 2015, the Maternal mortality ratio was 46th lowest out of the countries ranked. (See Maternal mortality in the United States.). Among wealthy nations, a study on 2016 data found the United States ranked first for child deaths by automobile accident and firearm, with overall child mortality 57% higher in the U.S. than other high-income countries, although traffic deaths were decreasing.
Singapore topped the global ranking on the ease of doing business for the seventh consecutive year, followed by Hong Kong SAR; New Zealand; the United States; and Denmark. Georgia was a new entrant to the top 10. In 2014 Doing Business covered regulations measured from June 2012 through May 2013 in 189 economies. Singapore was the first economy ...
The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It was started in 2007 by INSEAD and World Business, [1]: 203 a British magazine.