Sentence examples for giving index from inspiring English sources

These are the findings of the latest world giving index, compiled annually by the Charities Aid Foundation (Caf) from survey data drawn up across the globe by Gallup.

While the UK and the rest of Europe tread water in Caf's global giving index, Africa emerges this year as the continent showing the biggest increase in generosity.

According to the annual World Giving Index 2016, compiled by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), the UK is the most generous of all the European countries.

In fact, in 2011 the Charities Aid Foundation of Britain ranked the United States No. 1 among countries globally in its World Giving Index.

Over the second half of last year, there was a 2.7percentt decline in the Philanthropic Giving Index, a kind of consumer-confidence index compiled by Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy, based on surveys of executives of nonprofit organizations.

But there are signs of hope; CAF's 2013 World Giving Index showed that the average percentage of people who donated money, who volunteered, and who helped a stranger, rose worldwide in 2012.

(Index funds purchase all the stocks in a given index. Actively managed funds try to beat the market by selecting various individual stocks).

His influence has helped spur the growth of "index funds," which contain all the stocks in a given index, such as the S. & P. 500.

As stock markets fall, these funds profit because they own the option to sell shares in a given index, say the S.&P.

As for the risk of large losses, the lack of big bets on any single security gives index funds an advantage, too.

Give index funds a long look.