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BD among most optimistic countries in 2017 outlook
Reveals Gallup survey
Bangladesh steps into 2017 as one of the most optimistic countries in the world as regards hope for economic prosperity, according to a foreign agency survey.
The report on the worldwide survey conducted by WIN/Gallup International says when asked about their economic outlook for the new year, 81 per cent of Bangladeshis said that it would be a year of prosperity while only 14 per cent predicted it to be a time of economic difficulty. Meanwhile, 5.0 per cent of them said that it will remain the same.
This gave the country a net economic optimism score of 67 per cent, which is second only to Ghana (68 per cent) among the 66 countries surveyed as part of the research.
Moreover, Bangladeshis are in fact the most 'hopeful' nation about the year 2017 from a general point of view than any other countries that were part of the survey.
Asked that whether the year will be better, worse or the same than 2016, an overwhelming 86 per cent of Bangladeshis said that the present year will be better while only 10 per cent said that it will be worse and 3 per cent foresee it to be the same.
Bangladesh is also among the top 10 happiest countries in the world going into the year 2017 as per the Happiness Index of the survey.
When asked about their personal state of happiness, 80 per cent of Bangladeshis said they are either happy or very happy while only 6 per cent are unhappy or very unhappy.
This gives the country a net happiness score of 74 per cent and placed it in the ninth place in the happiness index after Fiji, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Panama, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Paraguay.
The WIN/Gallup study noted that those living in some of the fastest-growing countries in the world like Bangladesh, Ghana, Ivory Cost, Fiji, China, India and Brazil are the most hopeful for the year ahead while it is the economic super blocks of the EU and North America which show the least optimism for improvement.
The survey, as such, shows that despite rising inequality and infrastructural bottlenecks, Bangladeshis, like many of its peers in the emerging South, is growingly happy, hopeful and optimistic about their future.
The country's GDP growth rate reached a record 7.1 per cent in the fiscal year 2015-16, which, according to the IMF, is the second-highest among world's major economies.
Bangladesh's income per capita, in the meantime, had risen from US$ 406 in 2000 to US$ 1465 last fiscal.
Meanwhile, the WIN/Gallup survey found that globally 68 per cent of the world is happy about their lives, an increase from 66 per cent last year while 22 per cent are neither happy nor unhappy, and 9 per cent feel unhappy about their lives.
At the same time, 42 per cent of the world community is optimistic about the economic outlook for 2017 while 22 per cent are pessimistic and 31 per cent believe the economy will remain the same.
The WIN/Gallup International has conducted similar annual surveys each year since 1977. A total of 66,541 people from 66+ countries were surveyed for this year's research.
The report noted that in-between 2005 and 2015, the rich countries or countries with average annual per-capita income of 45,000 US dollars have lost 10 per cent in their share in global economy. This group in the opinion poll is at present the most pessimistic in their economic outlook for 2017.
Meanwhile, the middle-income countries or countries with average annual per-capita income of 13,000 US dollars gained 10 per cent in their share in global economy. This group in the survey is at present the most optimistic in economic outlook for 2017.
Again, the low-income countries or nations with average annual per-capita income of 7,000 US dollars which retained their share in global economy during the last decade hang in-between the above-mentioned two categories in terms of economic outlook.
"The world is witnessing changing income distribution across nations. The old rich are losing while the new rich are gaining ground. This transition is reflected in their outlooks on hope about 2017," Vilma Scarpino, President of the WIN/Gallup International Association, was quoted as saying in the report.
"Fortunately, happiness is becoming unrelated to views on economic outlook. The rich nations of the Western World are happy despite their gloomy outlook on economic prospects. As a result, the global community as a whole reveals a happy majority, in fact slightly happier than a year ago," he said.
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BD among most optimistic countries in 2017 outlook
Reveals Gallup survey
Bangladesh steps into 2017 as one of the most optimistic countries in the world as regards hope for economic prosperity, according to a foreign agency survey.
The report on the worldwide survey conducted by WIN/Gallup International says when asked about their economic outlook for the new year, 81 per cent of Bangladeshis said that it would be a year of prosperity while only 14 per cent predicted it to be a time of economic difficulty. Meanwhile, 5.0 per cent of them said that it will remain the same.
This gave the country a net economic optimism score of 67 per cent, which is second only to Ghana (68 per cent) among the 66 countries surveyed as part of the research.
Moreover, Bangladeshis are in fact the most 'hopeful' nation about the year 2017 from a general point of view than any other countries that were part of the survey.
Asked that whether the year will be better, worse or the same than 2016, an overwhelming 86 per cent of Bangladeshis said that the present year will be better while only 10 per cent said that it will be worse and 3 per cent foresee it to be the same.
Bangladesh is also among the top 10 happiest countries in the world going into the year 2017 as per the Happiness Index of the survey.
When asked about their personal state of happiness, 80 per cent of Bangladeshis said they are either happy or very happy while only 6 per cent are unhappy or very unhappy.
This gives the country a net happiness score of 74 per cent and placed it in the ninth place in the happiness index after Fiji, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Panama, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Paraguay.
The WIN/Gallup study noted that those living in some of the fastest-growing countries in the world like Bangladesh, Ghana, Ivory Cost, Fiji, China, India and Brazil are the most hopeful for the year ahead while it is the economic super blocks of the EU and North America which show the least optimism for improvement.
The survey, as such, shows that despite rising inequality and infrastructural bottlenecks, Bangladeshis, like many of its peers in the emerging South, is growingly happy, hopeful and optimistic about their future.
The country's GDP growth rate reached a record 7.1 per cent in the fiscal year 2015-16, which, according to the IMF, is the second-highest among world's major economies.
Bangladesh's income per capita, in the meantime, had risen from US$ 406 in 2000 to US$ 1465 last fiscal.
Meanwhile, the WIN/Gallup survey found that globally 68 per cent of the world is happy about their lives, an increase from 66 per cent last year while 22 per cent are neither happy nor unhappy, and 9 per cent feel unhappy about their lives.
At the same time, 42 per cent of the world community is optimistic about the economic outlook for 2017 while 22 per cent are pessimistic and 31 per cent believe the economy will remain the same.
The WIN/Gallup International has conducted similar annual surveys each year since 1977. A total of 66,541 people from 66+ countries were surveyed for this year's research.
The report noted that in-between 2005 and 2015, the rich countries or countries with average annual per-capita income of 45,000 US dollars have lost 10 per cent in their share in global economy. This group in the opinion poll is at present the most pessimistic in their economic outlook for 2017.
Meanwhile, the middle-income countries or countries with average annual per-capita income of 13,000 US dollars gained 10 per cent in their share in global economy. This group in the survey is at present the most optimistic in economic outlook for 2017.
Again, the low-income countries or nations with average annual per-capita income of 7,000 US dollars which retained their share in global economy during the last decade hang in-between the above-mentioned two categories in terms of economic outlook.
"The world is witnessing changing income distribution across nations. The old rich are losing while the new rich are gaining ground. This transition is reflected in their outlooks on hope about 2017," Vilma Scarpino, President of the WIN/Gallup International Association, was quoted as saying in the report.
"Fortunately, happiness is becoming unrelated to views on economic outlook. The rich nations of the Western World are happy despite their gloomy outlook on economic prospects. As a result, the global community as a whole reveals a happy majority, in fact slightly happier than a year ago," he said.
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