Most Optimistic Country in the World

India top AC Nielsen's Global Consumer Confidence index with a score of 127.
The global average was 92.


Forbes Magazine's Rich List last year placed India eighth in terms of the number of billionaires. The number of millionaires trebles every three years. Today, street peddlers pack cellphones.

The Times of India's Washington-based foreign editor, Chitanand Rajghatta, in a piece on the Indian diaspora, notes that there are around 20 to 30 million Indian nationals living in some 180 countries, "give or take a million or two who are in various transit lounges".

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