Important Reports and Indexes Released by International Organisations

Usually, UPSC doesn’t prefer facts based questions but in recent years factual questions can be seen in the prelims question paper. Those facts can be collected by reading the newspaper regularly. For those aspirants who don’t read the newspaper regularly or to those who need to revise the Important Reports and Indexes Released by International Organisations. I have listed some of them repeated in the newspaper. Will try to add more if I come across any new reports in Newspaper.  Comment below if you think if I have missed some Important Reports and Indexes Released by International Organisations

UPSC Civil Service Prelims Previous year Questions:

• 2014->  ‘ World Economic Outlook’ which is a publication of IMF.
• 2015 -> ‘Global Economic Prospects’ report of World Bank
• 2016 -> ‘Ease of Doing Business Index’ of World Bank and ‘Global Financial Stability’ Report of IMF.

Important Reports and Indexes Released by International Organisations:

1. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Education Development Index
2. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Gender Inequality Index
3. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – World human development report
4. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – Actions on Air Quality
5. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – Global Education Monitoring Report
6. IBRD (World Bank) – Global Economic Prospect (GEP) report
7. IBRD (World Bank) – Ease of Doing Business
8. IBRD (World Bank) – World Development Report
9. International Monetary Fund (IMF) – World Economic Outlook
10. International Monetary Fund (IMF) – Global Financial Stability Report
11. World Economic Forum (WEF) – Global Competitiveness Index 2016
12. World Economic Forum (WEF) – Global Competitiveness Report (GCR)
13. World Economic Forum (WEF) – World Power Language Index
14. World Economic Forum (WEF) – Human Capital Index
15. World Economic Forum (WEF) – Global Gender Gap Index
16. World Economic Forum (WEF) – Global Information Technology Report
17. World Economic Forum (WEF) – Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report
18. World Economic Forum (WEF) – Environment Performance Index
19. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – Global Environment Outlook
20. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) – Global Hunger Index report
21. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) – World Investment Report
22. International Labour Organization (ILO) – World Social Protection Report
23. International Labour Organization (ILO) – World Employment and Social Outlook
24. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) – The Global Report
25. United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network – World Happiness Report
26. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – Global Money Laundering Report
27. Asian Development Bank (ADB) – Asian Development Outlook
28. Institute for Economics and Peace – Global Piace Index

Important Reports and Indexes Released by Indian Organisations:

1. Quality Council of India – Report Card of Swachh Bharath Mission
2. Central Pollution Control Board – National Air Quality Indices (AQI)