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Rwanda, for example, has skyrocketed in the rankings, from 143rd in 2009 to 52nd in 2013.
Similarly, as Georgia has climbed to ninth in the rankings, its GDP has risen by more than 200% and foreign investment inflows have increased by nearly 300% since 2003.
For example, following criticism of the “Employing Workers” indicator, the International Finance Corporation (the World Bank’s private-sector lending arm) conducted a review and removed it as a contributing factor to the
rankings.
Countries like France, China, and India, dissatisfied with their low rankings, should not be allowed to eliminate or cripple the project.
But, to the extent that a misplaced focus on country
rankings
becomes a barrier to sensible policy, it can do real damage.
Such is the case with the stalled IMF quota reform, an issue where the
rankings
in fact are of some importance, but not in a zero-sum way.
Now, consider a few other findings from this year’s university
rankings.
Universities compete to ascend the research
rankings.
Of the 136 territories and countries included in the rankings, three countries in sub-Saharan Africa – Namibia, South Africa, and Lesotho – are rated most unequal in the world.
After all,
rankings
are only as reliable as the data on which they are based.
Moreover, given that annual
rankings
fail to account for changing demographics and trends, they can misrepresent a country’s policy needs.
Early retirement is even costlier for Italy, which tops OECD
rankings
of public-pension spending, with an annual outlay equivalent to nearly 16% of its GDP.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) arguably provides the closest thing to a credible hierarchy of economists, not unlike the ATP’s
rankings
of professional tennis players.
So I compared the
rankings
from December 2006 and September 2015 to see whether the RePEc index had evolved along with economic reality.
In fact, Lucas and Fama both moved up in the RePEc
rankings
during the period I examined, from 30 to nine and from 23 to 17, respectively.
Mobility in the RePEc
rankings
remains subdued even after widening the sample.
In the
rankings
of economists, by contrast, criteria such as gender or geographic origin confirm the overall inertia.
This is a priceless accomplishment for a country that had underachieved on so many fronts for so many years, in the process losing its self-confidence, failing to meet its considerable economic and social potential, and falling in international development
rankings.
Arrow’s theorem shows that even very mild conditions of reasonableness in arriving at social decisions on the basis of simple preference
rankings
of a society’s individuals could not be simultaneously satisfied by any procedure.
Scrutiny of the formal reasoning that establishes the theorem shows that relying only on the preference
rankings
of individuals makes it difficult to distinguish between very dissimilar social choice problems.
It is essential, particularly for making judgments about social welfare, to compare different individuals’ gains and losses and to take note of their relative affluence, which cannot be immediately deduced only from people’s
rankings
of social alternatives.
It is also important to examine which types of clusters of preference
rankings
are problematic for different types of voting procedures.
There are school and university league tables,
rankings
of companies on profitability or corporate social responsibility, tables of happiness indicators by country, and tables that attempt to rank consumer brands by value.
The financial world is also full of such
rankings.
The most striking change in the
rankings
is the rise of major Asian financial centers – and not just Hong Kong and Singapore, but also Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen.
After all, it is an unavoidable human trait that credible and prominently displayed charts and
rankings
can stir up aspirational spirits.
The competition prompted by the Global Findex
rankings
could be particularly valuable, especially with regard to financial inclusion.
Of course, current
rankings
are not the only valuable insights the Global Findex report provides; the data are much more nuanced than that.
Some of the Asian economies with the highest human development rankings, such as Japan and South Korea, are among the worst in terms of women in senior management, wage equality, remuneration, and political empowerment.
America remains first in total R&D expenditure, first in university rankings, first in Nobel prizes, and first on indices of entrepreneurship.
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