{"id":2177,"date":"2019-06-21T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2019-06-21T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:35:09","slug":"singapore-topped-the-imd-world-competitiveness-ranking-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/singapore-topped-the-imd-world-competitiveness-ranking-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore topped the IMD World Competitiveness Ranking 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSwiss-based&nbsp;<strong>International Institute for Management Development (IMD)\nWorld Competitiveness Ranking 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;said&nbsp;<strong>Singapore<\/strong>&nbsp;has\ndethroned the&nbsp;<strong>US&nbsp;<\/strong>to\nbecome the most competitive economy in the world.<strong>&nbsp;Hong Kong<\/strong>&nbsp;stands\nsecond spot in the list.<strong>&nbsp;USA&nbsp;<\/strong>stands\nthird followed by&nbsp;<strong>Switzerland\nand UAE<\/strong>&nbsp;and fourth and fifth respectively.<br><strong>Qatar<\/strong>&nbsp;entered the&nbsp;<strong>top 10<\/strong>.<strong>&nbsp;India ranked 43<\/strong>, one position\nhigher compared to 2018.<br><br><strong>Parameters\nconsidered:<\/strong><br>\nThe ranking process considers a wide range of\nhard statistics such as&nbsp;<strong>Gross\nDomestic Product (GDP), unemployment and&nbsp;<\/strong>government\nspending on<strong>&nbsp;health\nand education<\/strong>. IMD also used the soft data from an<strong>Executive Opinion Survey&nbsp;<\/strong>which\ncovers other parameters such as<strong>&nbsp;social\ncohesion, globalization and corruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss-based&nbsp;International Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness Ranking 2019&nbsp;said&nbsp;Singapore&nbsp;has dethroned the&nbsp;US&nbsp;to become the most competitive economy in the world.&nbsp;Hong Kong&nbsp;stands second spot in the list.&nbsp;USA&nbsp;stands third followed by&nbsp;Switzerland and UAE&nbsp;and fourth and fifth respectively.Qatar&nbsp;entered the&nbsp;top 10.&nbsp;India ranked 43, one position higher compared to 2018. Parameters considered: The ranking process considers a wide range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}