Poor Governance in the Global South


 
The Global South does not shine as a beacon of Good Governance. In the World Economics Global Governance rankings, the South registers badly, with only three countries (out of 100) rated A grade, only 16 countries rated as B Grade, and 54 rated D (poor) or E grade (pretty awful).

The Global Governance Index combines the results of the independently generated Rule of Law Index (1); Press Freedom Index (2); Political Rights Index (3); and the Corruption Index (4). These four indexes represent a wide spread of activities over which Governments exercise influence that taken together illustrate where a government is situated on the good/bad Governance scale.

Percentage of countries in various categories rated A/B/C/D/E
Governance: A = As good as it gets, E = Extremely poor governance.
Poor Governance in the Global South
Poor Governance in the Global South





The table above shows the percentage of Countries in various categories that fall into each of the A/B/C/D/E rating scales. As can be seen, Global South countries do not collectively show up well, even when seen against the Frontier Markets category of countries.

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