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Rank Country 2024 score Change from 2023 Change from 2022 Change from 2021 Change from 2020 Change from 2019 1 Somalia 111.3: 0.6: 0.8: 0.4: 0.4: 1.0 2 Sudan 109.3
[10] [11] Nigeria was also upgraded from an authoritarian regime to a hybrid regime. The 2017 Democracy Index registered, at the time, the worst year for global democracy since 2010–11. Asia was the region with the largest decline since 2016.
[273] [274] Until the early 1980s, it was one of Latin America's four most prosperous states; with an upper-middle economy, and a stable centre-left democracy. [274] The collapse of the oil market in the 1980s left Venezuela (a major crude oil exporter) in great debt. [273] [274]
The study, which analyzed 163 nations from 1960 to 2000, concluded that established independent judiciaries are successful at preventing democracies from drifting to authoritarianism, but that states with newly formed courts "are positively associated with regime collapses in both democracies and nondemocracies".
However, observers have noted that the American democracy dividend to Nigeria was otherwise "sparse and uneven" in the first few years after the 1999 elections. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] U.S. foreign assistance to Nigeria surged between 1998 and 2001, from less than $7 million to $109 million, [ 109 ] but it dwindled again in subsequent years, and in ...
LONDON (Reuters) -Nigeria is off the hook for an $11 billion damages bill over a collapsed gas processing project that was procured by bribery after the award was thrown out by London's High Court.
This article lists forms of government and political systems, which are not mutually exclusive, and often have much overlap. [1] According to Yale professor Juan José Linz there are three main types of political systems today: democracies, totalitarian regimes and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with hybrid regimes.
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