Looking around the world, there can be no doubt that countries differ dramatically in their quality of their governments. Great variation exists, no matter how one wish to define and measure government quality.
ONCE again Africa’s worthiest and perhaps happiest countries, according to Mo Ibrahim’s latest measure of all-round governance, scrutinising data gathered for last year, are offshore. Mauritius is the runaway winner, followed by the Seychelles in second place and Cape Verde fourth (see table).