Several African nations are among those that have made great improvements in how their people are governed, with Botswana even on a par with many more-developed Western nations.
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Other African countries that have showed particular progress are Liberia, under the continent’s only democratically elected woman leader, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; Uganda; Angola; Ethiopia; and Congo.
In the Worldwide Governance Indicators project, the authors define governance as the traditions and institutions by which authority is exerted in a country. This includes how governments are selected, monitored and replaced; the capacity of the government to formulate and implement sound policies; and the respect of citizens and the state for the institutions that govern economic and social interaction among them.
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