How Bad Is Bad?
Although the 10 worst failed states don’t necessarily suffer from the same problems, they do share one thing in common: a miserable quality of life for most of their people. And when they’re stacked up against the United States, the meaning of “failure” is devastatingly clear.
World Bank, most recently available data (2010)
World Bank, most recently available data (2010)
Alessandra N. Ram is a researcher at Foreign
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