Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque THE Philippines ranked 55th out of 167 countries in a global democracy index report released by London-based think tank The Economist Intelligence Unit on Wednesday, February 3. Previously, the country ranked 54th in 2019, 53rd in 2018, and 51st in 2017. I...
India is part of a broader global trend of an anti-plural political party driving a country’s autocratisation and was ranked 93rd in the LDI (Liberal Democratic Index), India figures in the “bottom 50%” of countries.
Other countries lead in not so positive things. For example, Russia leads in the number of nuclear warheads, China in carbon emissions, Afghanistan in opium production, North Korea in censorship, and Yemen in gender inequality. Among the awkward we find Venezuela leading in the number of miss ...
However, countries like China have disabused the West of the notion that its democracy is a one-size-fits-all system where everybody must play ball. On December 4, the country released a white paper, titled "China: Democracy That Works," describing its own version of democracy. Basica...
Worse still, the "preachers" of Western democracy, led by the United States, are utterly selfish. They have always tried to satisfy their ambitions to continue their domination of the world by fostering so-called democratic regimes, and they do not hesitate to intervene with the use of force...
In fact, the place is in free fall--an oil-rich country with per capita GDP down to $390 (from $1,000 20 years ago), a ranking below Bangladesh on the United Nations Human Development Index, and with a third of the country having placed itself under Sharia. 鈥...
also helped that they found willing “apolitical” development partners in the “international community.” Even the most “progressive” among them care more about their countries’ rankings in the World Bank’s “Doing Business Index” than in the state of their “informal” and agricultural ...
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"Democracy is not a decorative ornament, but an instrument for addressing the issues that concern the people," according to a white paper released Saturday by China's State Council Information Office. "Whether a country is democratic depends on whether its people are truly the masters of the co...
How China's democracy succeeds CGTN Share China on Saturday released a white paper to elaborate on its democracy under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Titled "China: Democracy That Works," the white paper explains how the nation's "whole-process people's democracy" ...