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Thursday, April 3. 2008
The BBC World Service Poll has been tracking opinions about country influence in the world since 2005. These latest results are based on 17,457 in-home or telephone interviews conducted across a total of 34 countries (including Lebanon) by the international polling firm GlobeScan together with the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland. GlobeScan coordinated fieldwork between October 31, 2007 and January 25, 2008.
People were asked to rate Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the USA and the European Union, as having a mainly positive or negative influence in the world.
Global Results Graph
(see below for Lebanon specific results)

Results & Full PDF after the jump
The poll finds that views of US influence in the world are still mainly negative, though they improved in 11 out of the 23 countries also polled a year ago.
Perceptions of the US worsened in three - Canada, Lebanon and Egypt.
Of other countries rated, Iran and Israel are viewed most negatively.
Negative views of Iran's influence remained at 54%. But Israel's negative rating went down from 57% to 52%.
Pakistan was the third most poorly rated country.
Germany, included in the ratings for the first time, is viewed most positively, with a 56% positive score to 18% negative.
Japan comes in a close second, with 56% positive to 21% negative. But a majority of those surveyed in neighbouring China and South Korea expressed negative views of Japan.
Russia showed the greatest improvement, with positive views rising on average among the countries surveyed from 29% to 37%.
Click for PDF of Full Study
tags: bbc survey, positive, negative, countries, israel, iran, usa, germany, russia, china, japan, lebanon, lebanese, beirut, 2008
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