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Mexico also ranks very low in comparison with high-income countries in the quality of its science and mathematics education, and its efforts in scientific research.
Within the ranks of our civil service and judiciary are nationals from Britain, Australia, the United States, Canada, and India.
During that time period, more than three billion people have joined the ranks of the non-poor.
It is to be hoped that Taylor's departure heralds the beginning of a new African era, in which Africa's rulers stop protecting the continent's dictators because they would rather incur the wrath of faceless citizens than expel a dictator from among their ranks.
India, which spends 3.2% of GDP on education, ranks lower than the average in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The young thugs who have attacked synagogues come mostly from the ranks of the unemployed and frustrated.
The ongoing Trump-Russia scandal ranks among the country’s most famous – including the Teapot Dome affair of the 1920s, the collapse of the energy giant Enron in the early 2000s, and more recently Bernie Madoff’s Wall Street Ponzi scheme – and it is all the more menacing for involving a hostile power.
As these conditions are presumed to be distributed uniformly within the population, they must afflict a significant share of policymakers, corporate executives, educators, and military personnel of all ranks, recurrently rendering them psychotic, delusional, and deprived of sound judgment.
The Global Findex report also quantifies and ranks countries according to the gender gap in financial inclusion.
Conspiracy theories abound, particularly among the ranks of financial traders, for whom volatility is like wind to a sailor.
India ranks fifth in the world in total production of wind power and third in terms of wind power added in 2008.
Today, it ranks among the five fastest-growing economies in the world, and is a bastion of regional stability.
Indeed, when adjusted for inflation and growth of coastal communities, Sandy ranks only 17th for US storms, and both the number and power of hurricanes that make landfall in the US have been declining slightly since 1900, not increasing.Similarly, in global terms, the energy in hurricanes during the last four years (including Sandy) has been lower than at any point since the 1970’s.
Indeed, when adjusted for inflation and growth of coastal communities, Sandy ranks only 17th for US storms, and both the number and power of hurricanes that make landfall in the US have been declining slightly since 1900, not increasing.
When this number falls as a result of lower fertility rates, and when higher life expectancy swells the ranks of pensioners, the only way to sustain PAYG systems is to decrease the level of benefits relative to contributions.
Unsurprisingly, currency arbitrage has propelled Venezuela to the top ranks of global corruption indicators.
Research from India shows that when governments increase the percentage of women in their ranks, social issues like health care, education, and food security receive higher priority.
CEU now ranks among the top 100 universities in the world in the social sciences – a remarkable achievement for an academic newcomer.
But, thanks partly to persistent corruption – Iran ranks in the lowest quartile globally in this area – annual inflation exceeds 10%, and youth unemployment stands at 25%.
But sporadic shooting and verbal antagonism between the two sides will continue, as Thailand’s powers-that-be close ranks in a right-wing turn towards the symbols and institutions of royalism, entangling Hun Sen, who should have stayed on the sidelines, in the endgame unfolding in Bangkok.
China ranks only 26th.
India, too, entered the ranks of the top-ten countries for clean-energy investment in 2010.
Today, Singapore routinely ranks among the top performers in educational attainment, as measured by the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).
With a volume of $800 billion, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange alone accounts for 80% of the total and ranks 19th worldwide.
Japan has not traditionally been a country of immigration, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, which ranks 136 countries, has Japan in 105th place.
In the Atlas of Economic Complexity compiled by Harvard Kennedy School researchers, Nicaragua ranks 106th out of 124 countries.
China now ranks in the top-five export markets for 12 of Latin America’s 20 countries, and is the region’s biggest customer for raw materials.
Unsurprisingly, the result has been the creation of a class of people with a strong sense of entitlement, who react to even minor challenges by closing ranks.
In February, the Security Council closed ranks on Syria for only the second time.
No one is likely to certify that Iraq is corruption-free – or even ranks low on corruption internationally.
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