When National Public Radio
radio host Gregory Warner visited Davos earlier this year, he discovered a
dizzying world of ranks and stats, all designed to help guide investors and
do-gooders. Representatives from India, Ukraine, Indonesia and other countries,
he quickly realized, would pitch media and investors only about their top
rankings, and omit or hide the negative ones. It was as if every country
portrayed only its most beautiful self. International
organizations today spend an astonishing number of human hours and money
creating global rankings. How useful are they in such a distorted field? What if
those providing the data (the governments themselves), have an incentive to
fudge or misportray …read more
Source: The New Republic
