Global Finance: Georgia ranks 49th among world’s safest countries
The safety score aggregates the indices from three factors: war and peace, personal security and natural disaster risk. Photo: Maria Gornyak/likealocalguide.com
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In the newest safety ranking of Global Finance magazine, Georgia takes 49th place among 128 countries with a safety index score of 9.68.
With this result Georgia is the safest country in the region.
In 2017, Georgia ranked 57th, scoring 14.41 among 131 countries.
The safety score aggregates indices from three factors: war and peace, personal security and natural disaster risk.
Iceland is the safest country in the ranking. 16 of the top 20 safest countries are located in Europe. Only Qatar, Singapore, New Zealand, and Canada rank in the top 20 without being in Europe.
Two countries that may be surprises are Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine (116th) has been in the midst of a low-intensity civil conflict since 2014 and joins Russia (108th) as the only two European countries to rank below the US (65th). Russia has suffered from high crime as well as threats to peace amidst an economic decline that shows no signs of reversing or halting any time soon. Ukraine also suffered economically and the violence in Eastern Ukraine has not yet abated,” reads the report by Global Finance.
The Global Finance ranking of countries' safety level are based on data of the World Economic Forum and the Global Institute For Peace.
The German Bundestag has declared Georgia a safe country on January 18, meaning that Georgians will not be eligible to seek asylum in Germany.
Property crime most prevalent
Crimes against property are the most commonly reported crime in Georgia, followed by violent crimes and drug-related offences, reveal statistics released today by official sources.
A new crew of public order officers will soon appear in the streets of Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi to prevent crime. 60 public order officers have already passed special training and will soon start their duties.
According to statistics, a total of 35,997 crimes were reported in the country during 2016. Of these, 20,661 or 57.4 percent have been solved.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze spoke about the positive and negative news of the week before the government meeting today and mentioned the challenges which need to be overcome.
Georgia has improved its position and now takes 16th place in the latest Best European Countries for Business 2019 report, published by the European Chamber (EuCham), a non-profit international organisation headquartered in Italy.
The German government has introduced a bill to the Bundestag which would allow highly-qualified Georgians to search for jobs in the country, the Head of the Economy and Law Department of the German Embassy to Georgia Jan Bittner told IPN.
The Tax Monitoring Department of the Georgian Revenue Service have found goods worth 23,640 lari ($8,580.76/€7,689.31) falsely marked with the Massimo Dutti brand.
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Georgia is the leader among the countries of the Eastern Partnership in the small and medium enterprises policy index, announces the Ministry of Economy of Georgia.
Georgia has been put on the list of top 50 countries under the Global Innovations Index rankings in 2019. Georgia is ranked 48th, while it came in 59tg in 2018. Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency reports that ‘Georgia's high-tech import, export of information and communications services (ICT) and industrial designs’ has caused the progress.
The head of the National Bank of Georgia Koba Gvenetadze has been nominated among the best central bankers of 2019 for the second year in a row by the world’s leading monthly financial magazine Global Finance.
The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Citizens’ Protection has decided to put Georgia on the list of safe countries.
Georgia has improved its position in the latest list of ‘Freedom Barometers’ published by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation annually for different countries around the world. This year, Georgia is in 27th position among a list of 45 countries and scored 69.06/100.
Georgian police have detained a 28-year-old man who set the former President Mikheil Saakashvili library in Tbilisi on fire yesterday.
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Georgia has presented its second, voluntary national review on the implementation of the UN's 2030 agenda on sustainable development, covering the country's progress and achievements between 2015 and 2019.