Tuesday, July 10, 2007

World Bank governance rankings show mixed results

(Reuters) - A World Bank report that measures factors like corruption control, government accountability and absence of violence, released on Tuesday, shows little overall improvement in governance worldwide despite increasing focus on the issue.

But cautioning against reading too much into global averages, the bank's latest Worldwide Governance Indicators (www.govindicators.org) also reveal that individually some governments, including those in Africa, could make a difference relatively quickly when they tackled governance reforms.


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