| Egypt and Tunisia performed well in social and economic benchmarks - but that's not enough to keep autocrats in power.
Perhaps the most striking finding in the United Nations' recent 20th anniversary Human Development Report is the outstanding performance of the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Here was Tunisia, ranked sixth among 135 countries in terms of improvement in its Human Development Index (HDI) over the previous four decades - ahead of Malaysia, Hong Kong, Mexico, and India. Not far behind was Egypt, ranked 14th. |
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The poverty of dictatorship
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