Numbers of note

$50tn: Lost by global financial markets across the world in 2008, including $9.6 trillion in the developing Asian market, according to a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)

75: India’s rank in the annual list of world’s best countries for business. Denmark tops the list of 127 nations, compiled by Forbes, for the second straight year

Rs 1 lakh: The cost of an artificial heart devised by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

5,000: The number of IBM employees who will be laid off in the US, with many of the jobs being transferred to India. Foreign workers account for 71 per cent of IBM’s nearly 4 lakh employees in 2009, up from about 65 per cent in 2006

2.6%: The rate at which India’s farm sector is expected to grow in 2009—lower than the 4.9% in 2007-08