Politics
Botswana best governed in Africa – as sub-Saharan Africa more peaceful globally
Botswana has also emerged among countries, which are considered the most peaceful in the world.
“The perception of Sub-Saharan Africa as a locus of economic under-performance and political instability is increasingly out-of-date, as underscored by the 2013 results of the GPI,” the report said.
“Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole this year ranks above the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Russia and Eurasia in terms of peacefulness. In part, this reflects rising economic prosperity—Sub-Saharan economic growth has outstripped that of every other region in the world over the past two years—and, ironically, the region’s traditional marginalisation from the global economy has helped insulate it from the impact of the global financial crisis.”
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