According to Transparency International, the global cycle of corruption driving social disparity has resulted in disgruntled individuals who subsequently turn to populist candidates. A survey conducted by Pouted revealed Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Sudan, North Korea, and Somalia to be the Top 5 Worst Governments in the World.
Here are the Top 5 Worst Governments in the World
5. Myanmar
Myanmar has been led to decades of brutal military dictatorship and poverty as a consequence of years of isolationist economic policies, and civil war with ethnic minority groups. Burma had succeeded toward internal peace and economic recovery. But the ruling AFPFL had divided due to personal feuds between U Nu and his closest associates. In reply to rumors of a military coup, U Nu invited the army chief of staff, Ne Win, to take over as premier.
The said country and its legacy of bad governance (Kreibich, 2016) could possibly lead to Myanmar’s loss of diversity if the government’s implementation of the Burmanisation Policy continued. ASEAN stated the following drawbacks of this policy: The government faces a huge challenge due to the scale of Myanmar’s ethnic diversity; Resistance is futile as they fear retribution; Myanmar will become less diverse; and Myanmar may not benefit from it.
Read more here: https://www.aseantoday.com/2018/03/myanmars-diversity-is-at-risk-as-the-government-continues-burmanisation-policy/
Myanmar is hugely governed by military forces during 1962-2011, iron fist
reigned over the country where fear and brutality and abuse of power ruled over
the people; there was no freedom. Until the first civilian government was formed
by Aung San Suu Kyi when she swept up the elections by landslide. The hopes of the citizens vanished when she was arrested by the military who cut internet services and stopped the airing of news channels; hailing Min Aung Hlaing, a dictator, as the new president of the country.
Myanmar is currently under a regime wherein critics, journalists, and activists are at the most risk (Regan, 2021). The citizens continuously perform protests in hopes of ending the military’s abuse of power.
Read more here: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/06/asia/myanmar-coup-what-led-to-it-intl-hnk/index.html
4. Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, formerly the region's breadbasket, has struggled to feed its own people since 2000, due to droughts and the effects of a land reform program that saw white-owned farms given to landless Zimbabweans, leading to large losses in output. The fall of Robert Mugabe in 2017 liberated politics and the media, but the country remains destitute and cash-strapped.
Read more here: https://www.theafricareport.com/128007/zimbabwes-economic-woes-sanctions-or-poor-governance/
The 13-million populated country suffered from economic decline after its 1965 proclamation of independence from the United Kingdom (Cain, 2015). President Robert Mugabe who had been in power for decades continuously blamed the government’s failure on the legacy of Western colonialism and white minority rule. His party’s absence of respect for property rights caused the Zimbabwean people to suffer.
Corruption continued to grow in Zimbabwe. As stated in a report from the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, in 2012, approximately $2 billion amount of tax was lost because of corruption, nearly one-sixth of that year’s GDP. In addition to that, Zimbabwe also garnered 2.1 out of 10 score for Corruption Perceptions Index conducted by Transparency National. These are only some of the reasons why Zimbabwe’s government continuously leads the country to its downfall.
Read more here: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1024&context=tdr
3. Sudan
Sudan is considered to be one of the poorest countries in the world, as almost half of its population lives in poverty. Where they encounter various difficulties such as lack of access to safe drinking water; lack of supplementary foods for mothers and children; population most likely not passing 40; serious illnesses among children; hard climate conditions, and insufficient amount of natural resources are contributing factors to poverty.
Read more here: https://borgenproject.org/why-is-sudan-poor/
It is described to be one of the world's poorest and least-developed countries. In the late 1990s, oil production began, and petroleum became the country's most important export. Agriculture still provides for around one-third of Sudan's gDP growth but its declining importance in the decades after independence.
The government’s lack of environmental management is the rooting factor of poverty and conflict; especially in rural areas who mostly depend on natural resources to survive. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides assistance by supporting the enhancement of its policies. With this, the UNEP is contributing to a positive and long term change in the environmental governance of Sudan.
Read more here: https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/disasters-conflicts/where-we-work/sudan/environmental-governance\
2. North Korea
North Korea under Kim Jong Un remained as one of the fascist countries in the world. There is no question that North Korea is under a dictatorial government where its citizens are continuously living in fear and restrictions. Wherein North Koreans abide by their laws out of threat, not wanting to experience execution, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, and forced labor upon disobedience.
As per Yop (n.d.), the implementation of human rights does not exist in North Korea. Human rights only exist to the Great Leader, the rest of the citizens are just his slaves. The Great Leader and his cabinet are allowed to do whatever they want without being questioned. Furthermore, the North Korean government cares less about what its people need and starves them to death. Everything is owned by the state, even agricultural cooperatives have no right to interfere with the use of the land. The lands are managed by the agricultural cooperatives, yet owned by the great leader. Its rulers claim that the lands are owned and controlled by the people, yet in reality, there’s no such thing as that.
Citizens in North Korea not only suffer from the lack of respect to human rights, and being starved to death but also from the loss of their freedom in finding ways to survive. North Korean rulers forbade the citizens to find ways to earn and fend for themselves, slaving them in forced labor and letting them suffer and die in starvation. People were forced to do things they did not want to but are desired by the great leader.
Read more here: http://www2.law.columbia.edu/course_00S_L9436_001/North%20Korea%20materials/hwang%20jang3.html
1. Somalia
Somalia is hailed to be the country with the highest rate of poor governance according to the data laid out by the article published by Pouted on the Top 11 Worst Governed Countries. It also ranked among the world’s most corrupt countries, as its officials willingly exchanged sanctions to illegal activities for inducements.
It is considered to be much worse than countries like Congo, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Yemen, and Afghanistan. Stated in the yearly ranking conducted by Foreign Policy and The Global Fund for Peace, it is reported to be the most failed state in the world (Jones, 2013).
Civilians are constantly getting injured or even losing their lives because of the
constant attacks from an active terrorist group, Al-Shabaab. From a record of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), around the early August of 2020, there were found to be 596 victims, including those of 269 killings. Most of these are caused by the Al-Shabaab’s using of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), suicide bombings, shellings, and targeted assassinations.
There are existing laws in the country’s Provisional Constitution, however, its application to the state is non-existent. For this reason, it is also called a lawless country. Citizens in Somalia constantly suffer from scarcity, corruption, war, sexual violence, child abuse, lost of freedom of expression, and many more.
Read more here: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/somalia
The rest of the top 11 are Laos, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, The Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique.
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