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In 2018, Iran ranked 124th in the World Bank’s “Doing Business” rankings, which was unchanged from the year before.
The idea of creating and publishing an index with country rankings is a strategy adopted by many organizations and social movements to raise awareness about issues such as corruption, governance, freedom, gender equality, competitiveness, productive knowhow, and the investment climate, among others.
It is common – but almost never wise – to think that the goal of policy should be to improve countries’ rankings.
In the 2005 rankings, Iceland scored as the least corrupt country, with the Scandinavian countries, New Zealand, and Singapore close behind.
At the aggregate level, Egypt could improve its performance in global rankings.
(All rankings can be found at www.weforum.com
In this year’s rankings, we determined a country’s competitiveness (the capacity to grow) according to three broad criteria: (1) technology; (2) public institutions; and (3) macroeconomic stability.
Our rankings cannot be used to assess short run cyclical conditions in an economy, but do provide insights into the longer-term prospects of major economies.
To be sure, these rankings do not prove that aging drives countries’ competitive advantage.
The big political loser is obviously the EU itself, which, without one-sixth of its current GDP, will fall in the economic rankings from just below the US to around – or some would say below – the level of China (measured using current exchange rates).
According to a 2012 Pew Charitable Trusts report, the United States, for example, invested more than $48 billion in renewable energy in 2011, up from $34 billion in 2010, regaining first place in the global clean-energy investment rankings.
This shift is reflected in the proliferation of rankings, indexes, and high-profile awards.
Likewise, several annual university rankings – including the CWTS Leiden Ranking, the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, QS World University Rankings, and the World University Rankings – rely on publication and citation data in their calculations.
University presidents must work to boost their institutions’ citation records, even though they know that the validity and reliability of these data, and the rankings that they inform, are questionable.
And, as the rankings change over time to reflect countries’ improving or worsening fundamentals, the equity markets that “smart beta” investors choose change accordingly.
In the meantime, China is combining surveillance with the development of social credit rankings that will restrict personal freedoms such as travel.
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.
At the bottom of the list, the expert panel gave very low rankings to the idea of restricting alcohol sales (as a proposed solution to health problems), educational voucher programs, and prison drug treatment and reintegration programs.
In the current rankings, both are locked in a clinch close to the bottom of the FT list of top firms.
And, although South Korea has slipped to 80th place in the IPU’s most recent rankings, the fall reflects subsequent growth in the proportion of female legislators in other countries.
According to OECD country rankings by employment, the top seven countries worldwide have welfare economies.
Similarly, college administrators who want to move their institutions up in the US News and World Reports rankings have made unwise decisions, such as investing in extravagant gyms at the expense of academics.
These countries’ rankings on political freedoms and corruption stand in glaring contrast to their rankings on development indicators.
It also made the Privy Council the guardian of Aritomo's edicts concerning examinations, appointments, discipline, dismissal, and rankings of bureaucrats.
Indeed, Russian universities are almost absent from global rankings: only two appear in the Shanghai University Top-500 list and, at the very bottom, among the 400 rated by The Times Higher Education Supplement.
On that planet, we see rankings in the upper 90’s for the survey’s five categories: justice, health, education, economics, and politics.
Academic journals determine the various disciplinary rankings that academic institutions are compelled to climb, which leads institutions to hire and retain only those scholars who can produce at high rates.
Japan slipped from 80th place in the World Economic Forum’s gender-gap rankings in 2006 to 98th in 2011, a worrying sign that a critical opportunity is being missed.
Botswana and Cape Verde are two of the small-population countries that are consistently placed near the top in rankings of African governance, human development, and economic performance.
Moreover, according to the accepted explanation, large countries such as France, Germany, Japan, and even China and India should also be represented at the top of global university rankings.
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