Sentence examples for think tank ranking from inspiring English sources

According to US academic Dr James McCann, who compiles an annual think tank ranking, there are 6,305 such bodies in the world.

In March SIPRI, a Swedish think-tank, ranked the country as the largest single importer of weapons, with a 10% share of the world's total.

In December they put forward a tenure-reform proposal; Mr Christie thinks it is still inadequate.The Tax Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank, ranks New Jersey 48th in the country for its business climate.

The Milken Institute, a think-tank, ranks 122 countries in an annual exercise designed to capture the ease with which businesses can raise domestic and foreign capital, whether from banks, equity markets or other sources.

The Tax Foundation, a free-market think-tank, ranks only two southern states, Florida and Texas, in its top ten for the friendliness of their business-tax climate.Racism still casts a shadow.

Matters may become clearer at the ANC's national conference in December, when firm policy decisions are due to be taken.In its latest survey of the attractiveness of countries to mining investors, the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think-tank, ranks South Africa 54th out of 93 mining jurisdictions, down from 14th out of 45 ten years ago.

But the "Happy Planet Index" of the New Economics Foundation, a London-based think-tank, ranks Bhutan 13th.For now, the four pillars of GNH sustainable development, environmentalism, good governance, and the preservation of Bhutanese cultural values appear to be little more than laudable common sense.

With this in mind, five years ago researchers at the Legatum Institute, a London-based nonpartisan think tank, set out to rank the happiest countries in the world.

Military think tanks are currently ranking the impending global food crisis as one of the largest threats to humanity, potentially sparking off another world war.

According to the Fraser Institute, a Canadian public policy think tank, Mexico in 2013 also ranked 88 on a list of 96 jurisdictions in terms of security for conducting mining business, worse than Myanmar and Zimbabwe but not as bad as Nigeria or the Philippines.

Clearly, some of these considerations went into the Fortune ranking -- the think tank that helped build the list, FSG (founded by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer), is a major proponent of "shared value" creation between business and society.