{"id":1265,"date":"2009-10-01T17:59:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2020-05-20T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:23:28","slug":"mauritius-seychelles-top-in-harvards-african-governance-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/mauritius-seychelles-top-in-harvards-african-governance-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius, Seychelles top in Harvard\u2019s African Governance Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1267\" title=\"mauritius\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mauritius1-340x263.jpg\" alt=\"mauritius\" width=\"340\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mauritius1-340x263.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mauritius1-387x300.jpg 387w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mauritius1.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/>Mauritius and the Seychelles are Africa\u2019s best-governed countries, followed by Cape Verde at 3rd and Botswana 4th according to a study by Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Governance. The top four rankings were unchanged from last year. War-torn somalia and Sudan are the worst.<\/p>\n<p>53 governance were rated according to the 2009 Index of African Governance which had criteria\u2019s including maternal mortality, gross domestic product per capita, respect for human rights and judicial independence. Coordinated by Robert Rotberg and Rachel Gisselquist, the study has been published annually since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The authors said in an e-mailed statement. \u201cBy taking note of which indicators lag and which have advanced, governments can improve the outcomes for their populations\u201d and \u201cBettering the lives of all of Africa\u2019s peoples is the overriding purpose of the index.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, which has the continent\u2019s largest economy, went down the list to ninth place from fifth. The decline was due to \u201cits lower scores in the areas of respect for civil and political rights and the rule of law,\u201d the authors said. \u201cThe index also reveals continuing challenges in South Africa in terms of poverty and inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria and Angola, Africa\u2019s two largest oil producers, were rated 36th and 48th respectively.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauritius and the Seychelles are Africa\u2019s best-governed countries, followed by Cape Verde at 3rd and Botswana 4th according to a study by Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Governance. The top four rankings were unchanged from last year. War-torn somalia and Sudan are the worst. 53 governance were rated according to the 2009 Index of African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[7881],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral","tag-seychelles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}