Worst Countries At Reducing Disaster Risk
These countries fall far behind global standards in reducing their vulnerability to natural disasters.
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Best Countries At Reducing Disaster Risk
Each of these 10 nations earns a gold star when it comes to mitigating disaster risk.
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15 Countries With The Highest Relative Productivity Losses From Particulate Emissions
Poor environmental health can devastate worker productivity, especially in the developing world.
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10 National Economies Least Dependent On Exports
Relative to GDP, these countries have the lowest share of their value added by the export of goods and services.
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15 Countries With The Most Export-Driven Economies
In these parts of the globe, producing goods and services for consumers abroad keeps national economies humming.
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12 Countries With The Worst GNI Growth Per Capita
In today's global economy, there are developed and developing countries alike struggling to achieve GNI per capita growth.
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Countries Where Teachers Are Paid Small Shares Of Secondary School Budgets
In certain places, large portions of secondary education budgets are used for financial aid to students, scholarships, uniforms, school supplies, and similar needs instead of paying staff.
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14 Countries Where Drinking Alcohol Is Illegal
In many countries with large Muslim populations, alcohol is completely banned across most of their realms.
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15 Countries With The Smallest Proportions Of Female College Professors
Throughout much of Africa and the Middle East, finding a female college instructor is a rare sight indeed.
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12 Countries With The Highest Percentage Of Female High School Teachers
Opportunities for women abound in secondary education in former Soviet Republics and Western and Central Asia.
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Top 12 Countries For Coastline And Marine Conservation
Many countries have dedicated the majority of their marine, subtidal, and intertidal regions as protected areas.
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12 Countries With The Highest Payments Of External Long-Term Debt Service
External debt service is the total repayments of principal and interest actually made by one country's residents to nonresidents from abroad. India tops this list.
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20 Countries With The Best Acess To Nurses And Midwives
Nurse and midwife access is especially high across much of the European Union and other developed regions.
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12 Countries With The Best Access To Surgeons
In some wealthy countries, more than 1 in 1,000 people may be employed as specialist surgeons.
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15 Countries With The Worst Access To Surgeons
1 or fewer specialized surgical team members exist for every 100,000 people in Afghanistan and many developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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12 Countries With The Worst Access To Quality Shipping Ports
In this list, landlocked countries' access to other countries' ports are considered, in addition to coastal nations where ports of their own are inadequate.
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15 Countries With The Best Access To Quality Shipping Ports
Developed economies with navigable coastlines tend to have the best port infrastructures.
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12 Countries With The Lowest Rates Of Cell Phone Subscriptions
With cell phone subscriptions per person of 1 in 17 and 1 in 9, respectively, Eritrea and North Korea have the lowest mobile phone subscription rates.
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20 Countries Where Bribery In Business Is Common Practice
Public firms in each of these countries regularly report receiving bribe requests, with much of Asia and Africa and former Soviet states having particularly high incidence.
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20 Most Expensive Countries To Ship Exports From
On a standardized container basis, West and Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa experience the highest costs to export.
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