Similar to last year, the U.S. takes third place in the GII. It ranked the highest in Market Sophistication (#1) and Business Sophistication (#2), but its overall score was dragged down by its lower rank inInfrastructure(#30).
THE World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, yesterday, at the ongoing IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings restated that Nigeria is one of the top five countries that has the largest number of poor. Nigeria, he said ranked third in the world while India ranked number one with 33 per cent of the ...
"China's historic achievements in the field of poverty alleviation are an important component in the international campaign for poverty reduction and also set an example for the global governance in this field," said Guo Weimin, member of National Committee of the Chinese Peopl...
"Democracy and sustainable development are essential for creating a better world," Secretary-General of Asia Cooperation Pornchai Danvivathana said at the Second International Forum on Democracy: The Shared Human Values held in Beijing on Thursday. He explained that democracy is imp...
Regarding GDP per capita, countries like Qatar and Luxembourg tend to rank higher. Additionally, the term “richest” can be interpreted in various ways, including considering factors like total GDP, wealth distribution, and economic diversity. Therefore, while Dubai is affluent and economically prospe...
such as China and Ghana, where consensus has formed on different values. In contrast, countries with heterogeneous values such as South Africa and India may struggle with internal division, but when averaging across their subpopulations, these countries’ values may resemble those of other countries....
According toa food waste non-profit group, in 2023 food retailers in the US ‘generated 4.45M tons of surplus food, nearly 35% of which went to landfill or was incinerated as waste.’ That 35% works out at around 9 lbs (4 kg) of food per person in America. With food prices sky hi...
Poverty in World Politics: Towards a Critique of Methodological Choices, Disciplines(s) and BoundariesWeber, Heloise
“Emerging Markets” is the universally accepted phrase to indicate economically developing nations whose economies show glints of brilliance outnumbered by wide stretches of poverty. The Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF consists of the stock of 5917 holdings companies—largely Chinese, Indian, and Taiw...