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Newsweek Ranks Bangladesh in Top 100 Best Countries
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 2010-08-25 |
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