{"id":521,"date":"2007-06-25T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=521"},"modified":"2007-06-25T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T16:58:00","slug":"failed-states-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/06\/25\/failed-states-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed States Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fund for Peace publishes an annual report called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundforpeace.org\/web\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=229&#038;Itemid=366\">Failed States Index<\/a>. This year it studied  177 countries and rated them on 12 criteria which polled social, economic, and political factors. <\/p>\n<p>A few observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canada&#8217;s three greatest weaknesses are shown to be:\n<ul>\n<li>Mounting Demographic Pressures<\/li>\n<li>Massive Movement of Refugees or Internally Displaced Persons creating Complex Humanitarian Emergencies<\/li>\n<li>Uneven Economic Development along Group Lines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Only 18 of the 36 most failed states are in Africa<\/li>\n<li>The United States is failing as a state better than 17 other countries<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala is failing more as a state than Mozambique, Madagascar, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mali, and Vietnam<\/li>\n<li>The 5 countries that are succeeding the most all have high taxes and are in Europe<\/li>\n<li>South Africa is the most successful country in Africa<\/li>\n<li>Haiti, Columbia, Bolivia, Guatemala are the biggest failures in the western hemisphere and also the sites of US military intervention (and the cause of much of the failure)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fund for Peace publishes an annual report called the Failed States Index. This year it studied 177 countries and rated them on 12 criteria which polled social, economic, and political factors. A few observations: Canada&#8217;s three greatest weaknesses are shown to be: Mounting Demographic Pressures Massive Movement of Refugees or Internally Displaced Persons creating &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/06\/25\/failed-states-index\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,16,22,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-521","6":"format-standard","7":"category-canadiana","8":"category-finance","9":"category-guatemala","10":"category-politics","11":"category-poverty","12":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}