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upscdictionary:: Economy- World Indexes and reports of different Institutions

World indexes

(Reports of different Institutions)
Here is a List of Different world Indexes that are highly important for UPSC Exam. reference have been made about this in

UPSC prelims Paper 2013

Which of the following publishes world economic outlook ?
1.)International Monetary Fund
2.)World Bank
3.)World Economic forum
4.) US chamber of commerce
Correct Answer is : 1

World Indexes and reports of different Institutions

  • Following are the world index’s that highly important for UPSC examination and others.
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  • All the indexes are published by the organization periodically and defines the status of different parameters than the country has.
  • The reports are collected by different bodies both governmental and private institutions and published at the global level to define where the country stands and improvements it has to be made so as to achieve desirable level of improvements and targets

Agency/Institution/Published Body

Publication/Reports/Index’s

World Bank (President Jim Yong Kim)

  1. Global Economic Prospects

World Bank group

  1. Ease of doing Business Index

World Economic Forum



  1. Global Competitiveness Report
  2. Global Risks Report
  3. Global Gender Gap Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  1. World Economic Outlook (WEO)

Developed by 
Pakistani Economist Mahbub ul Haq,
published by the
United Nations Development Program.
  1. Human Development Index (HDI)



Yale University,
Columbia University 
in collaboration with World Economic Forum 
and Joint Research Center of the 
European Commission
  1. Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and 
  2. Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

United States Chamber of Commerce

  1. Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC)

Transparency International (TI)

  1. Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)

Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)

  1. The Global Terrorism Index (GTI)

GII was Co-published by WIPO, 
Cornell University and INSEAD
  1. Global Innovation Index (GII)


Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)

  1. Global Peace Index (GPI)

Reporters Without Borders based 
upon the organization’s assessment of the countries’ press freedom records in the previous year
  1. Press Freedom Index




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