{"id":28807,"date":"2017-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/prosperity-index-can-czech-republic-keep-up-with-actual-challenges\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:25:45","slug":"prosperity-index-can-czech-republic-keep-up-with-actual-challenges","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/prosperity-index-can-czech-republic-keep-up-with-actual-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosperity Index: Can Czech Republic keep up with actual challenges?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shanker Singham,\u00a0Director of Economic Policy and Prosperity Studies at Legatum Institute presented in Prague <strong>the first edition of <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.li.com\/activities\/publications\/central-and-eastern-europe-prosperity-report\" rel=\"noopener\">Legatum\u2019s CEE Prosperity Report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech Republic ranks 27th out of 149 countries in the 2016 Prosperity Index, having moved up one rank since 2007: it remains in the global top 30 for prosperity, and it is the third best performing member of the former Eastern bloc, following Slovenia and Estonia. According to Legatum\u2019s Prosperity Index, its only deficit comes in Social Capital.<\/p>\n<p>The main topic of the panel discussion co-organized by Aspen Institute CE and \u010cesk\u00e1 spo\u0159itelna on September 21, 2017, were the challenges for the country on its path towards knowledge economy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"cs\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegatumInst\" rel=\"noopener\">@LegatumInst<\/a> report shows that the Czech prosperity has advanced. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StemUstav\" rel=\"noopener\">@StemUstav<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ceskasporitelna\" rel=\"noopener\">@Ceskasporitelna<\/a> 4 the fascinating insights! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iCIVkTFWbZ\">pic.twitter.com\/iCIVkTFWbZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aspen Institute CE (@AspenInstCE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AspenInstCE\/status\/911163899625529344\" rel=\"noopener\">22. z\u00e1\u0159\u00ed 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The presentation was complemented by results of a<strong> survey on citizen participation in Visegrad countries carried out by STEM<\/strong>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/people-profile\/pavel-fischer\/\">\u00a0Pavel Fischer&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a> analysis of the survey offered interesting data\u00a0for the discussion on social capital in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FadvantageaustriaCZ%2Fposts%2F1205274422907976&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"702\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The vivid discussion was open by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/people-profile\/tomas-salomon\/\">Tom\u00e1\u0161 Salomon<\/a>, CEO, \u010cesk\u00e1 spo\u0159itelna, and chaired by the President of Aspen institute CE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/people-profile\/ivan-hodac-5\/\">Ivan Hod\u00e1\u010d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read also the report by Robert Anderson on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellinews.com\/central-and-eastern-europe-lags-the-world-in-social-capital-129432\/?source=albania\" rel=\"noopener\">bne IntelliNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The panel discussion and presentation of the first edition of Legatum\u2019s CEE Prosperity Report showed that the Czech Republic\u2019s prosperity, covering economic success as well as overall well-being across nine pillars, has advanced over the past decade. Is this enough for the jump to knowledge economy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15947,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-tag":[582],"class_list":["post-28807","news-article","type-news-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-tag-ekonomicke-debaty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article\/28807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tag?post=28807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}