The World Economic Forum index also shows that U.S. infrastructure beats the European Union average by a wide margin!

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The World Economic Forum global competitiveness index shows that of the 27 nations in the European Union, 12 are more competitive in 2013 than 2012, while 12 are are less competitive with three unchanged.

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Partly because of poor transport, the World Economic Forum's latest travel and tourism competitiveness index ranks Vietnam a lowly 96th out of 130 countries.

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In the 2011 Global Gender Gap Index Report compiled by the World Economic Forum, the Philippines ranked 8 out of nearly 180 countries indexed.

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Target Rock released on March 19 at an EnergyBiz forum its top-performing utility in its sustainability and socially-responsible investing index: Sempra Energy, which is evaluated on everything from its generation portfolio to its community-wide investments to its overall financial performance.

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Dr David Haslam, of the National Obesity Forum, said the finding cast new doubt on the merits of Body Mass Index (BMI) as a way to assess whether somebody was unhealthily overweight, as it did not differentiate between different types of fat.

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The forum title was named after John Bogle, founder of Vanguard mutual funds and the father of low-cost index fund investing.

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