{"id":78728,"date":"2019-06-04T04:16:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=78728"},"modified":"2019-06-04T04:16:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T02:16:25","slug":"malawi-ranked-66th-safest-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/04\/malawi-ranked-66th-safest-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi ranked 66th safest in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Taonga Sabola:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A latest global safety survey by the <em>Global Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfmag.com\/\">Magazine <\/a><\/em>has ranked Malawi on position 66 on the list of world\u2019s safest economies.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations come at a time impoverished Malawi has engaged an extra gear in attracting foreign direct investment by, among other things, modernising its energy infrastructure and coaxing investors through investment foras.<\/p>\n<p>The survey gives Malawi a score of 10.33 points just below the United States which is on position 65 with a score of 10.30 points.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with neighbours, Malawi is rated much safer than Tanzania and Mozambique at positions 79 and 95, respectively, while Zambia is ranked higher on position 52 with a score of 9.98 points.<\/p>\n<p>Among other factors, the safety score considers war and peace, personal security and natural disaster risk. The safety score aggregates the indices from the three risks, thus presenting a comprehensive view of safety for each country.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland tops the list of the world\u2019s safest countries with a score of 6.16 points, followed by Switzerland at 7.01 points and Finland at 7.04 points.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal, Austria, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Denmark and New Zealand complete the top 10 rankings in the survey.<\/p>\n<p>About 16 of the top 20 safest countries are located in Europe while only Qatar, Singapore, New Zealand and Canada rank in the top 20 without being in Europe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cEconomic development seems to low risk from [sic] military conflict or domestic crime. In essence, these two factors are more controllable than the risk from natural disaster, which is often a function of geography,\u201d<\/em> reads the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In his inauguration speech in Blantyre on Friday, President Peter Mutharika emphasised the need for Malawians to remain peaceful and unite towards building the country.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi is ranked on position 111 out of 189 economies on the 2019 World Bank Doing Business Report which ranks countries on ease of doing business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Taonga Sabola: A latest global safety survey by the Global Finance Magazine has ranked Malawi on position 66 on the list of world\u2019s safest economies. The revelations come at a time impoverished Malawi has engaged an extra gear in attracting foreign direct investment by, among other things, modernising its energy infrastructure and coaxing investors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78732,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78728\/revisions\/78732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}