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And the World Economic Forum ranked us 75th in its latest Global Competitiveness Report – a ten-spot jump from last year, and the Philippines’ highest ranking since it entered the survey.
And India lags behind China in the efficiency of its product and labor markets (ranking 85th and 99th, respectively).
The western world is currently experiencing a process of portfolio rebalancing, which is reversing the international ranking of growth rates relative to those before the crisis.
In fact, when inequality rises, democracy suffers, which is why the demotion of the US in one prominent ranking of the world’s democracies is not particularly surprising.
These deaths are largely driven by a few risky behaviors: tobacco smoking (second in the global ranking of risk factors), alcohol use (ranked third), obesity and poor nutrition (ranked sixth and seventh, respectively), and physical inactivity (ranked tenth).
Satellite data have this March the hottest March on record, with April ranking second-hottest; the surface data have it the other way round, with March the second-hottest and April the hottest.
On government efficiency, the report claims that Italy is doing worse than all countries except Venezuela – much worse than Burundi or even Syria – in a ranking topped by Singapore and, more surprisingly, Rwanda.
The United States scores a surprising number of reds and yellows, ranking 42nd out of 157 countries overall.
In fact, the US fails to achieve a single green ranking for any of the 17 SDGs, sharing this dubious honor with only Greece, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Spain, and Turkey, among OECD nations.
But, because existing measures are all we have, the weaknesses are often overlooked when ranking relative gains or making policies, even though “progress” according to a given indicator is not necessarily genuine.
Northern Europe stands at the top of the world in this regard, with Finland, Iceland, and Denmark ranking 1st through 3rd.
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.
Even if a preferential voting mechanism were to be employed, with voters ranking their preferences from one to five on the ballot paper, the process of successive elimination of the less-preferred options would be mechanical on the day of the referendum, ruling out any debate between rounds of elimination.
The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale uses a seven-level ranking scheme to rate the significance of nuclear and radiological events: levels 1-3 are “incidents,” and 4-7 are “accidents,” with a “Level 7 Major Accident” consisting of “a major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures.”
And even if someone currently in a low-skill job is equipped to perform a high-skilled one at least adequately, that job may still go to an employee with yet higher skills, and the pay differential may still be great: in many jobs, relative skill ranking may matter more than absolute capability.
But the experts’ ranking of priorities also revealed some exciting and promising policy options.
Nepal is one of the world’s poorest countries, ranking near the bottom even in the South Asian region.
States are right to spend generously on education; but, of the world’s top ten universities listed by the Shanghai ranking, seven are private.
When the country isn’t suffering from floods, it is subject to water shortages, ranking as one of the most water-stressed in the world, according to the Asian Development Bank.
While Germany grew by only 14% in the ten years from 1995 to 2005, ranking as Europe’s “vice-laggard” next to Italy, France grew by 23.6%, which was nearly the old EU countries’ average of 24.3%.
Ambiguity is thus a political strategy that encourages the spread of implicit, informal rules of behavior, thereby shifting accountability onto the lowest ranking, least powerful, and most expendable soldiers.
When it comes to progress toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the US placed 42nd out of 157 countries in a recent ranking of the SDG Index that I help to lead, far below almost all other high-income countries.
America’s low ranking in the SDG Index is not America-bashing.
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and thus America’s highest ranking military officer, recently said, “The greatest danger to American security comes from the national debt.”
As the only son of liberal party elder Xi Zhongxun, Xi is also a ranking CCP “Princeling.”
With only 1% of the world’s population, France is the sixth largest economy, ranking fourth in international trade and third in exports of goods and services.
As a result, the Philippines has dramatically improved its ranking in Transparency International’s annual corruption index, rising from a 134th-place tie with Nigeria in 2010, to 94th place, alongside India, last year.
A better response would be to increase dramatically research and development into low-carbon energy– an option that gained a respectable mid-placed ranking on our list.
Similarly, we gave a low ranking to solutions to the challenge of outdoor air pollution.
RANKING WORLD INVESTMENTS1.Micronutrient supplements for children (vitamin A and zinc)2.The Doha development agenda3.Micronutrient fortification (iron and salt iodization)4.Expanded immunization coverage for children5.Improving agricultural technology6.De-worming and other school-based nutrition programs7.Lowering the price of schooling8.Increasing and improving girls’ education by paying mothers to send them to school9.Community-based nutrition promotion10.
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