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Doing Business: USA #3, China #83, India #122
According to the World Bank rankings of 181 countries by the ease of doing business for 2009, Singapore continues to be the easiest place on earth to start and run a business. The United States is ranked #3 overall, China improved seven place to #83 and India slipped two places to #122.
Parsing the details is revealing. China's lowest performance was in dealing with construction permits where it was ranked #176. Its best ranking was for enforcing contracts, #18. On the other hand, India's lowest performance was in the ability to enforce contracts, #180 and its best performance was in getting credit, #28.
Forbes Asia Fab 50: China 13, India 10
In September 2008, Forbes Asia ranked the Best performing Asian companies with market capitalizations or reveneue exceeding $5 billon. This year China came ahead of last year's leader India.
China's 13 companies are China Construction Bank, China Mobile, China Shenhua Energy, China Canke, Citic Securities, Gome Electricial Appliances, Gree Electrical Appliances, Lenovo Group, Sinopec - China Petroleum and Chemicals, Sunging Appliance, Tingyi Holding and STE.
India's companies listed are Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Bharti Airtel, HDFC Bank, Infosys Technologies, ITC Limited, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries Limited, Tata Steel, and Wipro.
Since the list is from Forbes Asia, American companies are not included. Incidentally just three Japanese companies made the Forbest list: Nintendo, Chiyoda and Yahoo! Japan.
Top 100 Brands: US 48, China 3, India 0
According to the Millward Brown 2008 Brandz study of global brands, Google is the most valued brand in the world, worth $86 billion. General Electric is next and is worth $71 billion followed closely by Microsoft and then Coca Cola worth $58 billion. 48 of 100 top brands are of American origin (although some like Anheuser Busch will not be American by next year).
Four companies from China figured on the list, with China Mobile leading at $57 billion followed by ICBC, worth $28 billion. Both China Construction Bank and Bank of China were worth about $19 billion. No Indian company was listed in this year's rankings by the Optimor unit of WPP's Millward entity but they expect that ICICI Bank may make next year's ranking.
Most Expensive Retail Locations: US $1500, India $280, China $268
According to Cushman & Wakefield, Fifth Avenue in New York is the world's most expensive retail shopping location averaging $1500 per square foot per year in 2008. In India the most expensive location is Khan Market in New Delhi at $280 per square foot per year and is ranked #16 worldwide. The most expensive location in China is Wanfujing in Beijing at $268 per square foot annually and ranked #19 worlwide. Each country had just one location among the top 50 most expensive locations.
Prices rose most rapidly on Oak Street, Chicago and Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills in the US. In India rapid price rises hit four locations most steeply. In Delhi prices went up by 87.5 percent in Ansal Plaza (India's first indoor shopping mall) and Connaught Place; in Greater Kailash 1 they went up 57 percent. Also in Mumbai's Kemp's Corner prices rose 55 percent. China was not hit by steep retail rent rises.
Reputation Institute 2008: US 51/India 11/China 6
Google is the most reputed American company, according to the Reputation Institute. The Tata Group ranks highest among Indian companies and Haier is the most reputed China entity.
Six companies from China were listed as part of the annual compilation of 200 global entitities which included: China Faw Group, Lenovo, Midea Group, China Construction Bank and DongFeng Motor. From India there were 11 companies on the list, besides Tata, there are Infosys, Maruti Udyog, State Bank of India, Hindustan Unilever, Life Insurance Corporation, Bajaj Auto, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, Mahindra & Mahindra, and Indian Oil Corporation.
More than one fourth of the companies on the list were American: 50 companies in addition to Google were ranked. Here are the next 10, Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, the Walt Disney Company, United Parcel Service, 3M Corporation, Xerox, Colgate Palmolive, Texas Instruments, Eastman Kodak and General Electric.
World Competitiveness Index: US 1st, China 17th, India 29th
IMD, a leading business school located in Lausanne, Switzerland publishes the World Competitiveness Yearbook ranking 55 economies. The 2008 report ranks the United States at the top with a score of 100. China is ranked at Number 17 with a relative score of 73.8. India is Number 29 with a score of 60.6. At the very bottom of the list were Venezuela at 31.1
Corruption Perceptions Index, US 20th, India ties China at 72nd
Transparency International, the global coalition againsit corruption assigns a Corruption perceptions Index to each country; this is the degreee of public sector corruption as seen by businesspeople and analysts. 10 clean and 0 is totally corrupt.
In the 2007 survey, the United States scored at 7.2, the 20th cleanest country in the world. India and China were tied at 3.5 and ranked number 72. The least corrupt countries were New Zealand, Denmark and Finland, each ranked at 9.4. At the most corrupt were Myanmnar (Burma) and Somalia at 1.4
Fortune 500: US 153/ China 29/ India 7
153 American companies are on this year's Fortune 500, down from 162 in 2007.
China is represented by 29 companies. China's three leading oil companies - CNPC, Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) - as well as the country's two power grid companies - State Grid and China Southern Power Grid - found place on the list. Four leading China banks - Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Bank of China and Agricultural Bank of China are also featured in the list.
Seven companies from India are listed, mostly in the oil business. The exceptions are Tata Steel, a new entrant by virtue of its purchase of Corus early in the year and State Bank of India. Oil companies listed include Reliance Industries Limited, led by the most affluent Indian resident, Mukesh Ambani. Others are public sector companies: Indian Oil, BPL, HPCL, and ONGC.
Mastercard: Top 75: US 11/ China 5/ India 3
In its second annual survery of the top centers of commerce, Mastercard ranked eleven American cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami, Houston, Dallas and Washington, DC in that order. New York was #2 and Washington ranked #36.
For 2008, Mastercard ranked five cities in China: Shanghai (at number 24), Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Chongqing (at #73). From India, Mumbai was ranked highest at Number 48, with New Delhi and Bangalore (#61) rounding out the list.
World Bank GDP Comparisons 2008, based on 2005 numbers
According to the World Bank, The United States GDP in 2005 was $12.4 trillion dollars. China's GDP added up to $2.2 trillion and India was $0.78 trillion.
Since goods are often less expensive in developing countries, the World Bank also recalculated the numbers for countries outside the US based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). This increases China's GDP to $5.3 trillion and India to $2.3 trillion. The US remains unchanged since it is the nominal basis.
Adjusting for PPP the following countries ranked highest in portion of hte world's GDP.
USA: 22.5%
China 9.7%
Japan 7.0%
Germany 4.6%
India 4.3%
