India has been ranked as the 40th most competitive economy -- slipping one place from last year’s ranking -- on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index.
The Ranking
The index is topped by Switzerland.
On the list of 137 economies, Switzerland is followed by the US and Singapore in second and third places, respectively.
Other countries in the top 10 are the Netherlands (4th rank), Germany (5), Hong Kong SAR (6), Sweden (7), United Kingdom (8), Japan (9) and Finland (10).
12 Categories
The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) is prepared on the basis of country-level data covering 12 categories or ....