CARACAS, Monday June 29, 2009 | Update
Politics
Venezuela, together with Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Belarus and Eritrea, is one of the countries with poor performance worldwide, according to the report on Worldwide Governance Indicators published by the World Bank on a yearly basis.
Developing countries have made significant progress in their fight against corruption but, in general terms, the quality of governance all over the world has not improved in the last decade, said on Monday the World Bank.
According to the annual survey, which aggregates data from 35 sources and covers 212 countries and territories, countries such as Norway and New Zealand recorded the best performance.
01:47 PM. Western Hemisphere. The US government is concerned about the "rhetoric comments" by Venezuelan authorities; praises Colombia's "restrained reply" and "has not aggressive intentions" against Venezuela or any other country in the region.