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Yet, in a global opinion poll conducted in 2013 by the BBC World Service, Israel ranked as one of the least popular countries – just above North Korea, Pakistan, and Iran – whereas Germany emerged as the most popular.
Finland, the US, and Canada ranked first through third among the 75 countries studied, while Nicaragua, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe ranked in the last three places.
According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, the most digitized sectors – ranked by 18 metrics on digital assets, digital usage, and digital workforce – enjoy significantly higher profit margins than traditional sectors.
The country is ranked among the world’s top-performing democracies – ahead of France, Italy, and the US according to some indicators.
Proud Germany, the inventor of the modern university system as most of the world currently knows it, now sees its students ranked at the bottom in tests of knowledge and competence.
But, considering that Transparency International ranked China 80th out of 176 countries in its 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, the conviction rate among Chinese businesspeople and public officials remains disproportionately low.
For example, tests administered by the OECD in 2003 found that Brazilian students ranked last in mathematics among 40 countries.
Similarly, according to the prestigious Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), in 2003 Chile’s eighth graders ranked 39th out of 44 countries in mathematics; in science they did only slightly better, ranking 37th.
According to a 2004 survey by The Times of London, not a single Latin American university is ranked among the top 200 in the world.
In its June 2011 survey, China was ranked 91st, behind Mongolia, Albania, and Belarus.
Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, the most widely-used benchmark to gauge businessmen’s and experts’ beliefs about the extent of corruption in various countries, ranked China 78th out of 158 countries in 2005 – not much improvement from 2000.
In 2005, the World Bank ranked China 142nd out of 204 countries on the “Control of Corruption” index.
Indeed, among the World Bank’s six “Governance Indicators,” China’s score on the “Rule of Law” index has also slid in recent years, from -0.28 in 1998 to -0.47 in 2005, when China ranked 124th out of 208 countries in this category.
By contrast, many of the countries that ranked highly in our sustainability rankings did so because their public pensions systems covered only the bare minimum necessary to keep retirees out of absolute poverty.
Notably, not all countries that scored well on sustainability were highly ranked when it came to adequacy.
In fact, China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, and Indonesia’s Joko “Jokowi” Widodo could end up ranked among their countries’ greatest modern leaders.
Other highly ranked policy options include the establishment of independent agencies to evaluate rigorously government spending programs, and more use of conditional cash transfer programs that provide regular payments to poor households for meeting conditions like sending children to school.
Last year, the Copenhagen Consensus – an esteemed panel of economists including several Nobel Laureates – ranked child nutrition as the top priority on its list of cost-effective investments that would improve global welfare.
Research that I carried out for Bruegel surveyed the largest 100 listed companies headquartered in Europe (ranked by market capitalization) and analyzed the geographical distribution of their revenue, which is increasingly transparent since the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) last year.
Federal income taxes as a proportion of income increase steadily from 2% at the 10th percentile (that is, a family ranked tenth from the bottom out of 100) to 14% at the 90th percentile, but then falls off slightly to 13% at the very top, reflecting the favorable treatment of capital gains and investment income under the Bush administration’s income-tax laws.
Meanwhile, Pakistan is consistently ranked among the countries that are most vulnerable to the harmful effects of climate change, owing to its demographics, geography, and natural climatic conditions.
According to this metric, in 2012, India ranked 56th out of 86 countries for gender equality, lower than other major emerging markets like Brazil, China, Indonesia, and South Africa.
Of course, corruption is not unique to the region; but six of the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ranked in the bottom half of Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions index.
This has been accompanied by staggering levels of corruption, with Cambodia ranked 160th by Transparency International, out of 175 countries.
In a recent international test of English proficiency, Japan ranked 136th, well behind South Korea, at 89th, and even North Korea, at 111th.
Here was Tunisia, ranked sixth among 135 countries in terms of improvement in its Human Development Index (HDI) over the previous four decades, ahead of Malaysia, Hong Kong, Mexico, and India.
Not far behind was Egypt, ranked 14th.
The Egyptian government was ranked 111th out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s 2009 survey of corruption.
But, more than a decade later, just about the only thing that these countries have in common is that they are the only economies ranked among the world’s 15 largest (adjusted for purchasing power) that are not members of the OECD.
Since its sixth anniversary in 2007, Wikipedia has consistently ranked in the top ten most frequently viewed Web sites worldwide.
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