Urban Planning & Public Policy: International Information & Data

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Among the areas of concern to the Organisation of Economic Development (OECD) are: agriculture, development, education, emerging economies, economics, employment, energy, environment & sustainable development, finance, governance, trade, science & information technology, social issues/migration/health, taxation, and transportation.

Currently designations are for Literature, Gastronomy, Media Arts, Film, Music, Crafts & Folk Art and Design.

A ranking of United States, Japan, China and South Korea's soft power in Asia. Soft power is defined as the ability to wield influence by indirect, nonmilitary means, whether by persuasion or attraction. The results are derived from surveys taken in the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam. The "Soft Power Index" is an average of the indexes to the five components of soft power: economic, cultural, human capital, diplomatic, and political.

Ranks 165 countries and 2 territories based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

The Vision of Humanity warns against year-on-year comparisons due to the expansion of the GPI from 121 countries to 140. In its methodology it states: "The normalisation of a number of our series for our index also makes direct year-on-year comparisons difficult as the normalised series essentially measure countries in direct reference to their respective differences for that given time period (maximums and minimums will differ between the 2007 GPI measurements and 2008). Nevertheless, we have developed a special comparative version of the Global Peace Index in 2008 for the original 121 countries. The comparison excludes new 2008 countries."

(from Polity IV) (1995, 2001, 2007) from Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM)

(1996- ) from The World Bank

Covers historical, political, economic and demographic background and a current synopsis of the health of the country.