{"id":33799,"date":"2017-11-01T07:59:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=33799"},"modified":"2017-11-01T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:59:43","slug":"global-competitiveness-index-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/global-competitiveness-index-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Competitiveness Index 2017-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: \u00a0Recently, the World Economic Forum released the Global Competitiveness Report 2017-18. According to the Global Competitiveness Index 2017-18 present in the report, at which position India has been placed?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 39th<br \/>\n(b) 35th<br \/>\n(c) 40th<br \/>\n(d) 65th<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The Global Competitiveness Report 2017-18 was released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva on September 26, 2017.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Report assesses the competitiveness landscape of 137\u00a0economies <\/em>on 12 pillars of competitiveness<em>, providing unique insight into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>These 12 pillars are -institutions, infrastructure, comprehensive economic environment, health and primary education, higher education and training, skilled labor markets, skilled goods markets, financial market development, technology readiness, market size, business expertise and innovation.<\/li>\n<li>Under the Global Competitiveness Index-2017-18, Switzerland (Score-5.9) has remained at the top for the sixth consecutive year.<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland is followed by United States (Score-5.9), Singapore (Score-5.7) Third, Netherlands (Score-5.7) Fourth and Germany (Score-5.7) fifth.<\/li>\n<li>The lowest place in the index was of Yemen 137th (Score-2.9), followed by Mozambique 136th (Score-2.9), Chad 135th (Score-3.0) and Liberia at 134th (Score 3.1).<\/li>\n<li>In this index, India is ranked 40th this year (Score-4.6) among total 137 countries.<\/li>\n<li>Last year India was at 39<sup>th<\/sup> place in 138 countries.<\/li>\n<li>India&#8217;s neighboring countries position- Sri Lanka 85th, Nepal 88th, Bangladesh 99th and Pakistan remained at 115th place in this index.<\/li>\n<li>Among BRICS countries apart from India, China ranked 27th, Russia 38th, South Africa 61st, and Brazil remained at 80th place.<\/li>\n<li>Among other major countries of the world, the United Kingdom ranked 8th, Japan 9th, Canada 14th, UAE 17th and France 22nd.<\/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-2017-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/reports\/the-global-competitiveness-report-2017-2018<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index-2017-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index-2017-2018\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index-2017-2018\/press-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index-2017-2018\/press-release\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index-2017-2018\/competitiveness-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-index-2017-2018\/competitiveness-rankings\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: \u00a0Recently, the World Economic Forum released the Global Competitiveness Report 2017-18. According to the Global Competitiveness Index 2017-18 present in the report, at which position India has been placed? (a) 39th (b) 35th (c) 40th (d) 65th Answer: (c) Related Facts: The Global Competitiveness Report 2017-18 was released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33799","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33799\/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\/31626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33799"}],"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=33799"},{"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=33799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}