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Paris Club, a group of major creditor countries whose officials meet ten times a year in the city of Paris, with the intent to find coordinated and sustainable solutions to the payment difficulties experienced by debtor countries. PIGS, also PIIGS, the economies of the countries of Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy and/or Ireland.
List of countries by economic complexity; List of countries by external debt; List of countries by long-term unemployment rate; List of countries by net international investment position per capita
Since 2004, the report ranks the world's nations according to the Global Competitiveness Index, [3] based on the latest theoretical and empirical research. [6] It is made up of over 110 variables, of which two thirds come from the Executive Opinion Survey, and one third comes from publicly available sources such as the United Nations.
Ranking World Bank: Total GDP, 2009 5 out of 144 [4] Institute for Economics and Peace: Global Peace Index: 30 out of 144 [5] Reporters Without Borders: Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2005 30 out of 167 [6] Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index 2008 18 out of 163 [7] United Nations Development Programme: Human Development ...
This ranking is more international than certain other rankings because it uses the Fortune Global 500. It does not concentrate only on English-speaking countries but also includes Asian, Latin American, and European universities. The Global Companies Rank Universities [2] by the New York Times is similar to this ranking.
Rank County/Territory Global price level (% of world average) [2] Year 1 Bermuda: 193.5 2021 2 Barbados: 188.9 2021 3 Cayman Islands: 184.7 2021 4 Switzerland: 181.4 2021 5 Israel: 179.1 2021 6 Iceland: 177.1 2021 7 Turks and Caicos Islands: 172.8 2021 8 Australia: 168.6 2021 9 Norway: 165.3 2021 10 New Zealand: 163.2 2021 11 Faroe Islands: 160.7
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.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) in charge of the evaluation and supervision of pharmaceutical products. Prior to 2004, it was known as the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products or European Medicines Evaluation Agency ( EMEA ).