Falling one place in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest Global Competitiveness Index, India has been ranked at 40th spot out of 137 countries surveyed, while Switzerland, the US and Singapore were ranked as the top three countries. Though, India has slipped from the 39th position to 40th, but WEF remained positive about India, saying that the country stabilises this year after its big leap forward of the previous two years. It also noted improvement across key competitiveness pillars like infrastructure, higher education & training and technological readiness.
The WEF’s report found improvement in ICT (information and communications technologies) indicators, particularly Internet bandwidth per user, mobile phone and broadband subscriptions, and Internet access in schools. The report added that the quality of institutions has increased further, especially in terms of efficiency of public spending, while noting concerns of private sector for doing business in India on the back of most problematic factor- corruption.
Among the BRICS, India came 3rd, below China and Russia. In South Asia, India has garnered the highest ranking, followed by Bhutan (85th rank), Sri Lanka (85), Nepal (88), Bangladesh (99) and Pakistan (115). On the list of 137 economies, other countries in the top 10 are the Netherlands (4), Germany (5), Hong Kong SAR (6), Sweden (7), United Kingdom (8), Japan (9) and Finland (10).
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