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NEW DELHI: India has displaced Japan to become the world's third biggest economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), according to a World Bank report released on Tuesday. The 2011 round of the bank's International Comparison Program (ICP) ranked India after the US and China. The last survey in 2005 had placed the country on 10th place.
PPP is used to compare economies and incomes of people by adjusting for differences in prices in different countries to make a meaningful comparison. India's share in World GDP in terms of PPP was 6.4% in 2011 compared with China's 14.9% and the US' 17.1%, the latest ICP showed. The survey covered 199 economies.
"The United States remained the world's largest economy, but it was closely followed by China when measured using PPPs. India was now the world's third largest economy, moving ahead of Japan," the report said.
Source: The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi is the sixth most followed leader on Twitter globally, according to a survey by Twiplomacy, a study of world leaders on the microblogging site. Modi's Twitter handle @narendramodi has 4,240,643 followers, with a weekly growth of 6.77%, monthly increase of 12.22% and quarterly growth of 24.26%.
The most followed world leader on Twitter is US President Barack Obama, followed by Pope Francis. Indonesia President SB Yudhoyono is in third position followed by the official White House account and Turkish President Abdullah Gul in the fifth position, according to the study.
Source: The Economic Times