Chile leads WB list for good governance in LatAm

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SANTIAGO, July 11 (Xinhua): Chile has been best governed among Latin American countries since 1996, said a World Bank report quoted by local media yesterday.
The 2007 report "The Governance Matters," which examined the ten year period from 1996 to 2006, put Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica at the top of the list on good governance among Latin American countries. The report covers 212 nations' governance over the past 10 years.
Chile is given a score that is even higher than Europe's Italy and Greece. Chile has similar levels of anti-corruption measures as the United Stats and Spain.
The report says that Venezuela and Paraguay are the least well governed countries. In the middle of the list, El Salvador and Colombia are slightly above average, while Panama, Brazil, Mexico and Peru are slightly below.
In terms of political stability and absence of violence, Chile comes second only to Costa Rica, while Colombia is at the bottom of the list.