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1 min readSep 22, 2016
Slogans of turning Pakistan into a knowledge economy have been echoing in the political corridors but the reality is that the country ranks 126 out of 140 countries in the global competitiveness indicator of the World Economic Forum — while India is ranked 55, Iran 74, Turkey 51, South Africa 49, Kenya 99, Ethiopia 109, Malaysia 18 and Indonesia 37. When it comes to innovation and sophistication factors — sub-indices of the same dataset — Pakistan is ranked 89, Indonesia 33, China 34, Sri Lanka 41, India 46, Turkey 56 and Ghana 65.
