Dear Malaysians,
Go rush to your nearest newsstand for a latest copy of Newsweek magazine.
If you are too lazy or a cheapskate, below is a summary from BERNAMA on some good news about our beloved country. The details can also be found here:
The categories to rank the countries are very much elements defining sustainable development.
Although being placed 37 out of 100 countries on the list can be considered fairly ok, I am not all that surprised especially when we look at the countries below us. We still need to emulate from the best to perform better particularly in two important areas namely political environment and healthcare. For example, look at how South Korea's position that outranked some european superpowers. That to me is a big surprise !
I hope Newsweek will publish this table again next year and in the mean time let us all focus our SD effort to make Malaysia's position in the top 15.
Source: BERNAMA
August 23, 2010 17:16 PM
Malaysia Ranks 37th On Newsweek's Best Country List
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is ranked as 37th in the world on Newsweek magazine's "The World's Best Countries" list, which ranks top globe nations by economy, politics, education, health and quality of life.
Among neighbours, Singapore is ranked at 20th, Thailand (58th), Philippines (63rd) and Indonesia (73rd).
In the rating, which involves 100 countries, Finland is ranked as number one, followed by Switzerland and Sweden.
In Newsweek's first-ever Best Countries special issue, they set out to answer a question that is at once simple and incredibly complex - if you were born today, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life?
For this special survey, Newsweek chose five categories of national well-being -- education, health, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and political environment -- and compiled metrics within these categories across 100 nations.
The magazine also listed Malaysia as the eighth best in education category among the upper middle-income countries.
Top three of the category are Kazakhstan, Poland and Cuba.
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Among neighbours, Singapore is ranked at 20th, Thailand (58th), Philippines (63rd) and Indonesia (73rd).
In the rating, which involves 100 countries, Finland is ranked as number one, followed by Switzerland and Sweden.
In Newsweek's first-ever Best Countries special issue, they set out to answer a question that is at once simple and incredibly complex - if you were born today, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life?
For this special survey, Newsweek chose five categories of national well-being -- education, health, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and political environment -- and compiled metrics within these categories across 100 nations.
The magazine also listed Malaysia as the eighth best in education category among the upper middle-income countries.
Top three of the category are Kazakhstan, Poland and Cuba.
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