{"id":5827,"date":"2020-01-23T13:34:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T08:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2020-01-23T13:35:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T08:05:23","slug":"global-social-mobility-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/global-social-mobility-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Social Mobility report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Polity: International Institutions and reports<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The World Economic Forum, which organises the well-known annual gathering of the world\u2019s most influential business and political decision-makers in the ski-resort of Davos (Switzerland), has come out with its first-ever Global Social Mobility Report, which has ranked India a lowly 72 out of the 82 countries profiled.<\/li>\n<li>According to the report, the Nordic economies such as Denmark and Finland top the social mobility rankings while countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Africa languish at the bottom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>What is social mobility?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The concept of social mobility encompasses several concerns such as: Intragenerational mobility, Intergenerational mobility, Absolute income mobility, Absolute educational mobility, Relative income mobility and Relative educational mobility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Key concerns for improving social mobility:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intragenerational mobility: The ability for an individual to move between socio-economic classes within their own lifetime.<\/li>\n<li>Intergenerational mobility: The ability for a family group to move up or down the socio-economic ladder across the span of one or more generations.<\/li>\n<li>Absolute income mobility: The ability for an individual to earn, in real terms, as much as or more than their parents at the same age.<\/li>\n<li>Absolute educational mobility: The ability for an individual to attain higher education levels than their parents.<\/li>\n<li>Relative income mobility: How much of an individual\u2019s income is determined by their parents\u2019 income.<\/li>\n<li>Relative educational mobility: How much of an individual\u2019s educational attainment is determined by their parents\u2019 educational attainment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>How is social mobility calculated?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The WEF\u2019s Global Social Mobility Index assesses the 82 economies on \u201c10 pillars\u201d spread across the following five key dimensions of social mobility:<\/li>\n<li>Health;<\/li>\n<li>Education (access, quality and equity, lifelong learning);<\/li>\n<li>Technology;<\/li>\n<li>Work (opportunities, wages, conditions);<\/li>\n<li>Protection and Institutions (social protection and inclusive institutions).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>How did India perform on each of the 10 pillars of social mobility?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s overall ranking is a poor 76 out of the 82 countries considered. 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