{"id":5951,"date":"2015-11-06T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T07:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2015-11-06T07:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T07:35:26","slug":"world-prosperity-index-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-prosperity-index-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"World Prosperity Index 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: International NGO Legatum Institute released &#8220;Legatum Prosperity Index-2015&#8221;, it has ranked India at-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) 101th position<br \/>\n(b) 102nd position<br \/>\n(c) 99th position<br \/>\n(d) 109th position<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ans (c) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 2 November 2015 International non-governmental organization Legatum Institute released \u2018Legatum Prosperity Index\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The index covered 142 countries in the world, which contribute for almost 96 percent of the overall world population and account for 99 percent of global GDP.<\/li>\n<li>This index has been issued annually since 2007, on the basis of prosperity of nations, economic growth and quality of life.<\/li>\n<li>A total of 142 countries in the Index are ranked based on their score.<\/li>\n<li>The overall rank in the index based on 89 different variables.<\/li>\n<li>The variables are then split into eight sub-indices. These are:\u00a0Economy, Entrepreneurship &amp; Opportunity, Governance, Education, Health, Safety &amp; Security, Personal Freedom, Social Capital.<\/li>\n<li>With an overall score of 3.504 points in the index Norway topped for the seventh consecutive year.<\/li>\n<li>Then Switzerland with the Score -3.337 ranked Second, Denmark with the Score -3.272 ranked Third, New Zealand with the Score -3.246 ranked fourth and Sweden with the Score -3.224 is\u00a0 ranked fifth.<\/li>\n<li>The bottom five countries in the index are Central African Republic (ranked 142), Afghanistan (ranked 141 ), Haiti (ranked 140), Chad (ranked 139) and Burundi (ranked 138)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>India&#8217;s position: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Legatum Prosperity Index, in 2015 ranked India at 99<sup>th <\/sup>position (Scored-0.801) while last year (LPI-2014) it was ranked 102.<\/li>\n<li>In this index neighboring countries of India are ranked as Sri Lanka (61), Nepal (89), Bangladesh (103), Pakistan (130) and Afghanistan (141).<\/li>\n<li>The index not included Bhutan, Myanmar and the Maldives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Performance of India in sub indices: <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Safety &amp; Security-114<sup>th<\/sup> (119<sup>th<\/sup> in 2014)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Entrepreneurship &amp; Opportunity-94<sup>th<\/sup> (103<sup>rd<\/sup> in 2014)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Education-92<sup>nd<\/sup> (93<sup>rd<\/sup> in 2014)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Health-107<sup>th<\/sup> (109<sup>th<\/sup> in 2014)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governance-53<sup>rd<\/sup> (56<sup>th<\/sup> in 2014)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economy -61<sup>st<\/sup> (62<sup>nd<\/sup> in 2014)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social capital-129(132<sup>nd<\/sup> in 2014)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In all the above areas indices indicate improvement for the India.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In the area of individual (personal) freedom India ranked 79<sup>th<\/sup> (ranked 78<sup>th<\/sup> in 2014) indicates no improvement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>India&#8217;s position among the BRICS countries:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>If we compare the Legatum Prosperity Index 2014, position of India is at the bottom among the BRICS countries.<\/li>\n<li>This year position of the BRICS countries are: China (52<sup>nd<\/sup> place), Brazil (54<sup>th<\/sup> place), Russia (58<sup>th<\/sup> place) and South Africa (75<sup>th<\/sup> place).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.li.com\/activities\/publications\/2015-legatum-prosperity-index\">http:\/\/www.li.com\/activities\/publications\/2015-legatum-prosperity-index<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2015\/11\/03\/where-is-india-on-the-global-prosperity-index\/\">http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2015\/11\/03\/where-is-india-on-the-global-prosperity-index\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.prosperity.com\/2015\/pdf\/publications\/PI2015Brochure_WEB.pdf\">http:\/\/media.prosperity.com\/2015\/pdf\/publications\/PI2015Brochure_WEB.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: International NGO Legatum Institute released &#8220;Legatum Prosperity Index-2015&#8221;, it has ranked India at- (a) 101th position (b) 102nd position (c) 99th position (d) 109th position Ans (c) Related Facts: On 2 November 2015 International non-governmental organization Legatum Institute released \u2018Legatum Prosperity Index\u2019. 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