ARMENIA AMONG THE STABLE COUNTRIES

AZG Armenian Daily
14/03/2008

Rating

141 countries are involved in Brookings institution’s "List of the
weak countries". Four main indexes are taken into consideration –
economy, policy, security and social sphere.

While assessing the economic state, economic growth rate, GDP on
one person, inflation, difference of incomes and quality of state
government were taken into consideration.

The economic state is assessed according to the levels of effectiveness
of authorities’ activity, control over corruption and personal freedom.

Security is assessed based on the level of political stability,
existence or absence of domestic conflicts and frequency of violation
of the law.

In the social sphere were taken into consideration the level of
child death rate, availability of education, duration of life and
availability of water-pipe and sewerage.

Data of UN and well-known research organizations were assumed as
a basis.

The first ten weakest countries are Somali, Afghanistan, Congo,
Iraq, Burundi, Sudan, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Liberia
and Ivory Coast.

Turkmenistan is the 35th in the list, Uzbekistan – 36th, Tajikistan –
42nd, Russia – 65th, Kirkistan – 73rd, Azerbaijan – 80th, Belarus –
81st, Moldova – 88th, Kazakhstan – 89th and Georgia – 90th.

Armenia is the 105th in the list of strong and stable countries,
Ukraine – 107th, Latvia – 136th and Litvania – 138th.

Iran is the 66th, India – 67th, China – 74th, Turkey – 98th, Argentina
– 115th and Poland – 135th.

Slovakia, Hungary and Chili are considered as the most stable countries
according to their ratings.