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Investment incentives available: Breaks on income and customs taxes; export incentives Ease of Doing Business rank (2019): 159 Corruption Perceptions Index rank (2019): 96 Political risks: High level of political risk; election postponed until 2021 Security risks: Apart from Covid-19, several areas are very unsafe for travel, especially border areas, due to unexploded land mines and danger of kidnapping PROS CONS Droughts, locusts High inflation Sources: AM Best, Government of Canada Global T...

USA TODAY The claim: Denmark is ranked the happiest country in the world; 33 hours work in a week, $20 minimum wages, free university, medical and child care Every year ahead of the United Nations World Happiness Day, on March 20, a report is released that ranks 156 countries on their happiness based on income, life expectancy, freedom, social support, trust and generosity.  According to one social media post, Denmark has turned up at the top of list.  "Denmark is ranked as the happiest coun...

Cambodias Ministry of Mines and Energy / AFP Civil society organizations and Cambodia’s banned opposition party have called on the government to release detailed information about revenue it is earning from the petroleum industry, days after the country struck oil following a decades-long quest. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on social media that Cambodia had extracted its first drop of crude oil from fields in the Gulf of Thailand following 30 years of delays. The...

22 December 2020 Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18, and John Kinahan, Forum 18 Tajikistan restricts freedom of religion and belief, along with interlinked freedoms of expression, association and assembly. Forum 18s survey analyses violations including: ban on and punishments for all exercise of freedom of religion or belief without state permission; severe limitations on numbers of mosques; jailing of Muslim, Jehovahs Witness and Protestant prisoners of conscience on alleged "extremism" charges; impunit...

Sierra Leones tech-aided war on corruption The West African nations fight against corruption started bearing fruit when political will, supported by international partners, began mixing with digital technology. Can Sierra Leone be a model for the rest of Africa? Under Julius Maada Bio, the Anti-Corruption Commission has actively tackled entrenched corruption since 2018 Sierra Leone has inched slowly upwards on the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index in recent years. It...

Published date: 17 December 2020 10:28 UTC | Last update: 3 months 2 weeks ago On 17 December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old street vendor from the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire in protest against the corruption of his local police force, which regularly humiliated him and confiscated his wares. The act of defiance, which cost Bouazizi his life, became the catalyst for an uprising that took down President Zine El Abi...

Sierra Leones tech-aided war on corruption dw.com 12/17/2020 Beenish Javed The West African nations fight against corruption started bearing fruit when political will supported by international partners began mixing with digital technology. Can Sierra Leone be a model for the rest of Africa? © DW/Abu-Bakarr Jalloh Provided by Deutsche Welle Sierra Leone has inched slowly upwards on the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index in recent years. It ranks the west...

The St Kitts Nevis Observer Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Dale Marshall. (FP) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados–December 16th, 2020–Barbados Attorney General Dale Marshall has promised to continue Government’s efforts to fight against corruption. He gave this commitment during the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ of Barbados and Integrity Group Barbados’ The Fight Against Corruption in Barbados virtual panel discussion to mark International Anti-Corruption Day, recently. M...

Is genuine regime change possible in Russia’s sphere of influence? Conventional wisdom suggests that faced with an imminent revolutionary threat, Russia consistently strives to fulfill its ‘preventive counter-revolution’ agenda in its neighbourhood and beyond. While the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia seemed to defy the Russian ‘counter-revolution’ policy, its disappointing outcomes prompt us to conclude that there was barely a real revolution. Nevertheless, successful, mass-based o...

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