Monday, June 27, 2011

ETHIOPIA ''IN DANGER'' OF BEING A “FAILED STATE” STUDY SHOWS (By BRUH YIHUNBELAY)

(25 June 2011, Reporter )--Ethiopia was ranked the 20th “failed state" in the world for the year 2011 by the annual Failed States Index (FSI).

The index is published annually by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, both based in Washington, DC.

The publishers say the index draws on 90,000 publicly available sources to analyze 177 countries and rate them on 12 metrics of state decay and categorize states as being either a critical, in danger, borderline, stable and not stable states.

Ethiopia scored 9.1 out of 10 in demographic pressures, 8.2 in refugee flows, 8.4 in group grievance, 7.2 in human flight, 8.2 in uneven development, 7.7 in economic decline, 7.5 in delegitimization of the state, 8.4 in public services, 8.5 in human rights, 7.9 in security apparatus, 9.0 in factionalized elites and 8.1 in external intervention.

The world's "most vulnerable" nation, according to the annual report of the Index, is Somalia and the top five countries on the list are Somalia, Chad, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti.
Source: Reporter

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