Africa: Ibrahim Index 2015 - 'Governance Progress in Africa Is Stalling'

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How well is your country governed? This is the question the Ibrahim Index of African Governance seeks to answer. This year's results are bad news for the continent as a whole, and South Africa specifically. But what's going right in Zimbabwe? By SIMON ALLISON.

Sudanese billionaire Mo Ibrahim believes most of Africa's problems are rooted in poor governance, and there are few who would disagree with him. He also believes that governance can and should be measured, accurately and objectively, and that critiques and policy should be based on numbers rather than conjecture. To this end, he created the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), which is now in its ninth iteration.

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