Morocco vs. Tunisia
Published by BO18 on - 1/29/2007Always wondered how Morocco and Tunisia performed compared to each other, in international rankings concerning economic freedom, press freedom and human development?
Well I created a little table with the 8 most important indexes (see list below) and the rankings of both Morocco and Tunisia.
Regard this post as a prelude to a longer post concerning economic freedom and developing democracies.
Anyhow, do you notice something about the rankings of both countries?
- The 2006 Globalization Index
- UNDP - Human Development Report 2006 (PDF-file!)
- Transparency International - 2005 corruption index (PDF-file!)
- The Economist - Democracy Index 2007 (PDF-file!)
- Freedom House - Freedom in the world 2007 (PDF-file!)
- Heritage Foundation - Index of Economic Freedom 2007
- Reporters Without Borders - Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006
- The Fraser Institute - Economic Freedom of the world 2006
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Morocco | 40 | 123 | 78 | 115 | 138 | 96 | 97 | 95 |
| Tunisia | 37 | 87 | 43 | 135 | 149 | 69 | 148 | 68 |
(the lower the ranking-number, the better. The ranking of the better performing country has been made bold)
The longer post will be posted within the next 24 hours (I hope)
it's worth to add also algeria which is the third country of the (little) maghreb
Algeria doesn't belong to any of those 2 systems, so for this time I left it out.