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13. Mnemonic Index
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| Mnemonic | Unpacks To |
|---|---|
| "Her Majesty's Garden Contains Dazzling Peonies" | HDI (UNDP) → MPI (UNDP/OPHI) → GHI (Concern/Welthungerhilfe) → CPI (Transparency Intl) → Democracy Index (EIU) → Press Freedom Index (RSF) — the "big six" social/governance indices, roughly in the order most exam papers introduce them |
| "IMD measures I Make Decisions; WEF just Watched Everything Fade" | IMD's World Competitiveness Ranking is alive; WEF's Global Competitiveness Report has faded (discontinued) — fixes the single most-confused pair in Section 1 |
| "A World Bank Doing Business Died in '21" | Ease of Doing Business, World Bank, discontinued 2021 |
| "WIPO owns the Idea, so WIPO owns the Innovation (GII), and WIPO counts the paperwork too (WIPI)" | WIPO (patents/IP mandate) publishes both the composite Global Innovation Index and the raw statistical World Intellectual Property Indicators |
| "Five Friends Feed the World" (FAO, WHO, UNICEF, WFP, IFAD → reorder as "FAO Watches UNICEF Feed Infants") | SOFI's five joint UN publishers — distinguishes it from GHI's two-NGO authorship |
| "EPI is at rock bottom, CCPI climbs the top-ten" | India's opposite-looking environment ranks: EPI near-bottom, CCPI top-10 |
| "Sleepy SAARC, Busy BRICS, Strong SCO, Giant G20" | The four India-linked regional/plurilateral groupings, one defining trait each — SAARC dormant, BRICS has its own bank, SCO is the Eurasian security bloc, G20 is the big-economies forum India chaired in 2023 |
| "Bretton Woods Birthed Both" (IMF + World Bank, 1944 conference, operational 1945) | Fixes the shared founding story/year of the two Bretton Woods institutions |
| "ILO is the OldLeague's Leftover" | ILO founded 1919, inherited from the League of Nations — the one UN specialised agency older than the UN itself |
| "Flawed, not Free — but not Failed either" | India's Democracy Index category: Flawed democracy (2nd of 4 bands, not the top "Full democracy" band, but well above "Hybrid" or "Authoritarian") |
| "Court of Criminals is the ICC; Court of Countries is the ICJ" | ICC prosecutes individuals for international crimes; ICJ settles disputes between states — India is not an ICC member but is automatically an ICJ party |
| "India Stood up Alone (almost) for the Sun" — ISA, Gurugram | International Solar Alliance: India- and France-co-founded, headquartered in Gurugram — the first-ever intergovernmental body HQ'd in India |
| "CDRI builds Concrete that Doesn't crack in a Roaring Inferno (or quake, or flood)" | Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure — India-founded and headquartered in New Delhi, focused on infrastructure standards, distinct from ISA's solar-energy focus |
| "Perception is a Poll; Statistics are a Stack (of records)" | The two data-collection families from Section 0.5 — CPI/Democracy Index/Freedom House are poll-based; HDI/LPI/WIPI are hard-data-based |
| "Three MPIs, one letter soup: Global (poverty), National (India's poverty), Municipal (India's city governance)" | Fixes the triple "MPI" abbreviation trap in Section 9 — same three letters, three unrelated products |
| "NITI builds a Nation of Indices: SDG, Health, School, Export, Water, Innovation" | A quick-recall list of NITI Aayog's own major domestic state-ranking indices from Section 9 |
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