{"id":4991,"date":"2015-10-05T07:31:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T07:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2015-10-05T07:31:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T07:31:45","slug":"the-global-competitiveness-index-2015-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/the-global-competitiveness-index-2015-16\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Competitiveness Index, 2015-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Que:<\/strong> <strong>World economic forum released Global Competitiveness Report 2015-16 recently. According to Global Competitiveness Index 2015-16 reports, India positioned-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a. 60<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>b. 55<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>c. 75<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>d. 70<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>b<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September 30, 2015 Global Competitiveness Report 2015-16 was released by World Economic Forum in Geneva.<\/li>\n<li>This year\u2019s Report provides an overview of the competitiveness performance of 140 economies grouped into 12 indicators.<\/li>\n<li>The 12 indicators are: Institutions, Infrastructure, Macroeconomic environment, Innovation, Health &amp; primary education, Business sophistication, Higher education &amp; training, market size, Goods market efficiency, Technological readiness, Financial market development, Labor market efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>Globally, Switzerland has retained its top position (score-5.76) as the world&#8217;s most competitive economy for seventh year in a row.<\/li>\n<li>Second position earned by Singapore (score-5.68), USA (score-5.61), Germany (score-5.53) and Netherlands (score-5.50) are at third, fourth and fifth position respectively.<\/li>\n<li>The lowest position in index of 140 countries\/economies are Guiana (place: 140, score-2.84), Chad (pace-139, score-2.96), Mauritania (place: 138, score-3.03) and Burundi (place: 136, score-3.11).<\/li>\n<li>India is on the 55<sup>th<\/sup> position in the index, as compared to 71st last year.<\/li>\n<li>Neighborhood countries of India in this index are Sri Lanka 68<sup>th <\/sup>(score-4.21), Nepal 100<sup>th<\/sup> (score-3.85), Bhutan 105<sup>th<\/sup> (score-3.80) and Pakistan 126<sup>th<\/sup> (score-3.45).<\/li>\n<li>Among other developed countries, Japan 6th (score: 47), Hong Kong 7th (score: 5.46), England 10th (score: 5.53) and France 22th (score: 5.13).<\/li>\n<li>Among other emerging major economies, China positioned 28th (score: 89), Russia 45th (score: 4.44), South Africa 49th (Score: 4.39) and Brazil 75th (score: 4.08).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-report-2015-2016\/\">http:\/\/reports.weforum.org\/global-competitiveness-report-2015-2016\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/gcr\/2015-2016\/Global_Competitiveness_Report_2015-2016.pdf\">http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/gcr\/2015-2016\/Global_Competitiveness_Report_2015-2016.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Que: World economic forum released Global Competitiveness Report 2015-16 recently. According to Global Competitiveness Index 2015-16 reports, India positioned- a. 60th b. 55th c. 75th d. 70th Ans: b Related facts: September 30, 2015 Global Competitiveness Report 2015-16 was released by World Economic Forum in Geneva. This year\u2019s Report provides an overview of the competitiveness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4991","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\/4991","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=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/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\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"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=4991"},{"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=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}