Regional Analysis
Europe: Prosperity is rising: Why is it uneven between Western and Eastern Europ...
03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:Europe has long been a region of stability and prosperity; its citizens are among the healthiest, wealthiest, and safest in the world. Globally,...
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03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam have all seen rapidly rising prosperity over the past decade. However, investment in the fundamental roots of prosperity growth in Cambodia, Ind...
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03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has long looked to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD), not its Gulf neighbours, as a target peer group. The Index shows that it has r...
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03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:Africa’s prosperity is growing yet still below world average … and the gap between best and worst perform...
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03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:Saudi Arabia was once the kingdom of easy living. Sitting on the world’s second-largest proven oil reserves...
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03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:Rapid economic and social change breeds uncertainty and fear that populists can exploit.
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03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:With literacy rates higher than 90 percent, improved democracy levels, lar...
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03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:Four of the five countries with the largest prosperity gains in absolute t...
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03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:There is an old Māori proverb, he kai kei aku ringa – “There is food ...
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03 November 2016
From the 2016 Prosperity Index:In 2001 Jim O’Neill, then chief economist at Goldman Sachs, coined the f...
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