Monday, November 3, 2008

KL ranked 4th in global emerging markets cities

Kuala Lumpur has been ranked fourth best city in emerging markets in Mastercard's October 2008, Emerging Market Index (EMI). The EMI is based on the following weightage:

Dimension Weightage
1 Economic and Commercial Environment 12.80%
2 Economic Growth and Development 13.80%
3 Business Environment 16.60%
4 Financial Services Environment 10.60%
5 Commercial Connectivity 13.00%
6 Education and IT Connectivity 12.00%
7 Quality of Urban Life 10.60%
8 Risk and Security 10.60%
Total 100.00%.


Mastercard's EMI Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok both placed highly in the region and among the top ten globally due to their strong regional transportation roles and solid growth.

Read the full report here.

2 comments:

walla said...

Are you sure it's not the duralex survey?

;P

de minimis said...

Haha :) naughty, naughty