OREANDA-NEWS. January 21, 2016. Ukraine has improved its performance by 17 positions having entered top 25 list of countries in the Global Services Location Index and ranked No.41 in the list of countries having the most innovative economies globally in the Bloomberg ranking.

Ukraine moved up to the 24th line in the Global Services Location Index (GSLI), prepared by A. T. Kearney, a consulting company.

According to the report, Ukraine improved by 17 positions in the index as compared to the previous ranking. The index scores such criteria as financial attractiveness, people skills and availability, and business environment.

In another ranking Ukraine took No. 41 as a country having innovative economy. The Bloomberg agency published the ranking this week.

According to the Bloomberg Innovation Index, the closest "neighbor" of Ukraine in the list was Latvia, which took No. 40.

When compiling the Global Innovation Index the Bloomberg scores the economies according to 7 criteria, among which R&D intensity, productivity, researcher concentration and manufacturing capability etc.