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Bangladesh ranks 141st in economic freedom index | |
2006-01-06 | |
Bangladesh has been ranked 141st among 161 countries in the 2006 Index of Economic Freedom published by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation, a US-based research group.
Bangladesh's ranking was the worst among five of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc). Sri Lanka was in a better position and shared the 92nd position with Romania with a score of 3.19, followed by Pakistan with 110th position and 3.33 points, India with 121st position and 3.49 points, and Nepal with 125th position and 3.53 points. Bhutan and the Maldives were not included in the list. All the Saarc member nations were placed in the third category, as they were dubbed 'mostly unfree' economically. Bangladesh, which managed to reduce its overall score by 0.07 point this year, obtained better score in the monetary policy than in the other areas. A lower score signifies better position. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#8 Bangladesh: think hurricane Katrina and New Orleans on an annual basis. |
Posted by: RF 2006-01-06 15:55 |
#7 Now, now Seafarious: from what I've heard the uninhabited portions of Zimbabwe and Venezuela are really very nice. |
Posted by: Secret Master 2006-01-06 14:43 |
#6 All the garden spots of the world...utopias all. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-01-06 11:40 |
#5 The link to the home page for the report is here. Countries ranked below Bangladesh, in order to the bottom: Vietnam Republic of Congo Uzbekistan Syria Nigeria Haiti Turkmenistan Laos Cuba Belarus Venezuela Libya Zimbabwe Burma Iran North Korea Five other countries, including Iraq, were not ranked. |
Posted by: Steve White 2006-01-06 11:31 |
#4 republik Bezerkeley 160.01a |
Posted by: RD 2006-01-06 11:19 |
#3 Haiti, Bolivia, most of subsaharan Africa comes to mind....along with a bunch of the Middle East, like Iran and Syria....but I still would have thought that Bangladesh would have been lower than 141st. Miracles do happen. |
Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-01-06 09:42 |
#2 I'm trying to think of the bottom 20. Cuba is an easy one, as is Zim-Bob-we. After that?? France? California? |
Posted by: Jackal 2006-01-06 09:06 |
#1 Now they won't get to go to meetings of the big 140. |
Posted by: mhw 2006-01-06 08:18 |