Uruguay, top Latin American country in IDI 2017

By Pittaluga Abogados

The World Economic Forum has issued its Inclusive Development Index for 2017, which ranks 109 countries according to their current level of inclusive development, based on performance in three leading areas: Growth and Development; Inclusion; and Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability. Each area is in turn divided into a number of sub-indexes, including GDP per capita, labor productivity, employment, healthy life expectancy, median household income, inequality, public debt, and carbon intensity of GDP.

The index provides two separate rankings: one for the 30 richest countries in the world (advanced economies), and another for 79 developing economies. Uruguay comes in sixth place in the ranking of developing countries and is the best placed Latin American country. Uruguay also scored high in specific indicators, with outstanding performances in median income (ranking first among the 79 developing economies), growth and development (fifth place), GDP per capita (sixth), and life expectancy (eighth).

Pittaluga Abogados

Pittaluga Abogados, has initiated its professional practice 20 years ago, as an Intellectual Property Law Firm.

After some years providing a specialized and top level service for foreign clients, many of them among the world premier companies, Pittaluga Abogados obtained a recognized international prestige in said field, which convert it into one of the leaders Intellectual Property Law Firms in Uruguay.

Thus, today in P&A we take pride in emphasizing that our goal has always been and will continue being, to keep a personal relationship with our clients, considering at all times the priorities of our clients as our own, with the belief that each one of them is unique and irreplaceable.

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