Japan is in second place for the first time, while the UK remains in third, and France moves to fourth place - major gains are in the index’s People and Governance sub-categories. Winter Olympics and FIFA World Cup hosts South Korea and Russia improved their images, South Korea most remarkably. The U.S. remains in sixth place.
Global Business Influencers represent less than 1% of the population. But, taking into account their influence, spending power, and the corporate budgets they control, they are a disproportionately important audience for B2B marketers.
A new survey to capture elements beyond populism finds that Indians are optimistic about the future of India, have confidence in most macro institutions, are quite rigid about their leaders and leadership style, but largely feel the system is broken.
A major new Ipsos study of over 19000 people in 27 countries shows that the majority of Indians say that they regularly see fake news and half of them said that they believed a fake story, only to discover later that it was fake.
Notably, the survey further shows our trust in politicians and media declining.
While the world is becoming more tolerant of the third gender, with at least 72 per cent Indians perceiving transgender people as a natural occurrence, India has become the top most nation to believe that it is not a mental disease, said the Ipsos Global Survey on transgender people along with Buzzfeed and Williams Institute.
