PM: Gov’t goal to gain spots for Georgia in top 5 of all major global rankings
The Georgian Government is aiming to achieve the country being listed in the top five of all major global rankings in the coming years, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told the Parliament on Wednesday. Photo: PM's press office
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The Georgian Government is aiming to achieve the country being listed in the top five of all major global rankings in the coming years, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told the Parliament on Wednesday.
Garibashvili made the comment while presenting the annual report on the activities of the Government to the legislative body, telling MPs Georgia was already holding leading positions in various international rankings. He compared the country's achievements to those by Moldova and Ukraine in rankings by various organisations and said "everyone knows that we are unconditional leaders" among the Associated Trio states.
The Government head cited Georgia’s 49th global position - and first in regional context - in the latest Rule of Law Index of the World Justice Project.
Do you know what place Ukraine holds [in the Index]? It is 74th globally and seventh in the region. Moldova ranks 73rd in the world and sixth in the region. According to the Rule of Law Index, Georgia is an unconditional leader", Garibashvili said.
He also cited the World Bank Governance Index, where Georgia is ahead of Ukraine and Moldova, and the Open Budget Index, which has ranked the country first in the world.
Other rankings Garibashvili noted to lawmakers included:
- Economic Freedom Annual Report, published by the Fraser Institute, listed Georgia in fifth position, Ukraine in 129th and Moldova in 66th
- Index of Economic Freedom by the Heritage Foundation placed Georgia 21st, Ukraine 130th and Moldova 78th
- Corruption Risk Index lists Georgia in 29th place, while Ukraine is 104th and Moldova 115th
- Global Index of Corruption by Transparency International - Georgia is in 41st position, Ukraine in 123rd, and Moldova in 115th
- Corruption Perception Index - Georgia listed 45th, Ukraine 122nd, Moldova 105th
- Safety Rating - Georgia in position, while Ukraine is 81st and Moldova 84th
The PM also mentioned the Crime Index by NUMBEO, which recognised Georgia as one of the safest countries in the world with its 14th position in the ranking.
Garibashvili summarised the rankings by calling them "the result of our 10 years of work" in comments to lawmakers.
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday hailed the “historic” decision of the European Commission to recommend the European Council to grant Georgia a European perspective, in an address to the Georgian Parliament.
Georgia is now the highest ranked country on budget transparency in Open Budget Survey 2021 published by the International Budget Partnership on Tuesday.
Georgia’s economic freedom score is 77.2, making its economy the 12th freest in the 2021 Index of Economic Freedom by the Heritage Foundation. "Its overall score has increased by 0.1 point, primarily because of an improvement in the government spending score. Georgia is ranked 7th among 45 countries in the Europe region, and its overall score is above the regional and world averages", reads the index.
Georgia has taken 5th place among 165 countries in the world in the economic freedom annual report published by the Fraser Institute. The most recent comprehensive data available are from 2019. Hong Kong remains in the top position. Singapore comes in second. The next highest scoring nations are New Zealand, Switzerland, Georgia, United States, Ireland, Lithuania, Australia, and Denmark.
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The United States Agency for International Development announced on Friday the signing of a five-year, $21 million programme that facilitates "more effective and accountable" local governance in support of Georgia’s ongoing decentralisation reforms.
Georgia has been ranked first among 59 countries for the "continuous improvement" of performance in Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Assessment, an index compiled by the World Bank, the Ministry of Finance of Georgia announced on Wednesday.
Georgia has been ranked 35th among 184 countries in the Economic Freedom Index of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation think-tank, with the country placed ahead of 11 European Union member states and all candidate countries aspiring for membership in the bloc.
Georgia’s ranking in the European Research Centre for Anti Corruption and State-Building’s latest Transparency in the Time of War index has jumped from 54th to 17th, Revaz Javelidze, the Head of the Government Administration, announced on Monday.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Tuesday said his country’s “impressive leap” from 54th to 17th in the latest Transparency in the Time of War Index was “another evidence” the European Union’s refusal to grant Tbilisi its membership candidate status last year had been “far from [being] a merit-based decision”.
Georgia’s ranking in the European Research Centre for Anti Corruption’s latest Government Transparency index has jumped from 54th to 17th, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told the Parliament on Friday.
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