{"id":16202,"date":"2016-10-01T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16202"},"modified":"2016-10-01T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:45:18","slug":"2016-17-global-competitiveness-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/2016-17-global-competitiveness-index\/","title":{"rendered":"2016-17 Global Competitiveness Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently World Economic Forum (WEF) has release Global Competitiveness Report for 2016-17. What is the rank of India among the 138 countries in the 2016-17 Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 40th<br \/>\n(b) 39th<br \/>\n(c) 45th<br \/>\n(d) 65th<br \/>\n<strong>Ans (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 28 September 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF) has release Global Competitiveness Report for 2016-17.<\/li>\n<li>The Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017 assesses the competitiveness landscape of 138 economies, providing insight into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity.<\/li>\n<li>2016-17 Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) is the part of the report is calculated by aggregating indicators across 12 pillars in the report which covers both business and social indicators.<\/li>\n<li>The 12 pillars includes institutions, macro-economic environment, infrastructure, health and primary education, higher education and training, labour market efficiency, goods and market efficiency among others.<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland has been ranked 1st for the eighth times in a row with the score of 5.81.<\/li>\n<li>Singapore and the United States stayed in second and third place with the score of 5.7 each.<\/li>\n<li>The Netherlands overtook Germany for fourth place, while Sweden in sixth spot and Britain in seventh leap-frogged Japan, Hong Kong and Finland.<\/li>\n<li>Last five countries in the Index are Yemen (Rank- 138, score-2.7), Martania (Rank- 137, score-2.9), Chad (Rank- 136, score-2.9), Burundi (Rank- 135, score-3.1) and Malawi (Rank- 134, score-3.1).<\/li>\n<li>India jumped 16 places to the 39th position with the score of 4.5 in the last year in the WEF\u2019s Global Competitiveness Index.<\/li>\n<li>In the year 2015-16, India was ranked at the 55th place(Out of 140).<\/li>\n<li>Among neighboring countries of India, Sri Lanka has been ranked 71st in index (score-4.2), Bhutan 97th (score-3.9), Nepal 98th (score-3.9), Bangladesh 106 th (score-3.8) and Pakistan 122nd (score-3.5).<\/li>\n<li>Among the developed countries of the world to Japan has been ranked 8th(score-5.5), the 9th Hong Kong (score-5.5), the United Kingdom 7th (score-5.5) and the France 21th (score -5.2).<\/li>\n<li>Among the emerging economies of the BRICS countries, China has been ranked 28th (score-5.0), Russia 43rd (score-4.5), South Africa 47th (score-4.5) and Brazil 81 th (score -4.1) is achieved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/reports\/the-global-competitiveness-report-2016-2017-1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/reports\/the-global-competitiveness-report-2016-2017-1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index\/competitiveness-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index\/competitiveness-rankings\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index\/country-profiles\/#economy=IND\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index\/country-profiles\/#economy=IND<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently World Economic Forum (WEF) has release Global Competitiveness Report for 2016-17. What is the rank of India among the 138 countries in the 2016-17 Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)? (a) 40th (b) 39th (c) 45th (d) 65th Ans (b) Related facts: On 28 September 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF) has release Global Competitiveness Report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-16202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}