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| Newsweek Ranks Bangladesh in Top 100 Best Countries |
| 2010-08-25 |
| Bangla #88. Burkina Faso #100. [Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh has been ranked 88th among the 100 countries in the first-ever list of the world's best countries prepared by international newsmagazine, Newsweek in its latest issue. Bangla cracked the top 100? Who, besides Zim and Somalia, out of the 192 countries making up the UN didn't make the list? For this special survey, published in its August 23 & 30 issue, Newsweek chose five categories of national well-being such as education, health, quality of life, economic competitiveness and political environment across the 100 nations. Ah, Newsweek. That explains it. Bangladesh's position is one rank up from Pakistan (89th) and way down from Sri Lanka (66th) and India (78th). Finland has topped the list and all the top 10 winners are Nordics. The Nordics are Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia .. wait a minute, that's only seven. Burkina Faso found itself at the bottom. Can't get much more un-Nordic than Burkina-Faso. Say, what ever happened to Dahomey? Newsweek says the survey has found that the best countries tend to "be small, rich, safe and cold." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Newsweek says the survey has found that the best countries tend to "be small, rich, safe and cold." And Bangladesh tends to be "small, flat and washed away every Spring". |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-08-25 22:58 |
| #3 Ain't planning to go there anytime soon--or ever. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-08-25 16:53 |
| #2 Maybe newsweak got a note with a picture of a shuttergun from the RAB at 2:30 in the morning. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2010-08-25 14:21 |
| #1 Maybe they're counting the UK, Ireland, and Iceland as being Nordic? I mean, except for recent immigrants there was massive settlement by Vikings into those countries. Where was Canada? ------------------------ And don't be down on Bangladesh, they _do_ have the Rapid Action Battalion, which is pretty neat. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-08-25 10:20 |