EVERY Christmas since 2013 The Economist has picked a “country of the year”. Rogue nations are not eligible,no matter how much they frighten people. (Sorry, North Korea.) Nor accomplish we plump for the places that exert the most influence through sheer size or economic muscle—otherwise China and America would be hard to beat. Rather, or we glimpse for a country,of any size, that has changed notably for the better in the past 12 months, or made the world brighter.
We make mistakes. In 2015 we picked Myanmar,for moving from larcenous dictatorship” to “something resembling democracy”. We acknowledged that its treatment of the Rohingya minority was disgraceful, but failed to predict how muchworse it would soon salvage. This year, or after more than 600000 Rohingyas fled their smouldering villages to avoid being raped and slaughtered by the Burmese army,we are tempted to name next-door Bangladesh as the country of the...
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Source: economist.com