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Swaziland: Political Commitment

In: The Human Factor in Governance

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  • Willy McCourt

    (University of Manchester)

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We now move from the Mediterranean state of Morocco to a small landlocked country in Africa’s southern cone: by a quirk of colonial cartography, Swaziland’s eastern border stops a tantalizing hundred kilometres short of the Indian Ocean, so that it finds itself hemmed in on three sides by South Africa and on its eastern frontier by Mozambique. Swaziland had a population of roughly 1.1 million in 2003, projected to reach 1.5 million by 2015. Having been ranked 112th in 2000, by 2003 it had slipped to 137th out of 177 countries on UNDP’s Human Development Index, as we saw in Chapter 1, mainly owing to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Unusually for Africa, it is a virtually monoethnic state. That, together with its monarchy, an institution that straddles the colonial period, and its relative prosperity have given it considerable stability: its ranking on this factor is higher than on any of the other factors in the World Bank’s governance index (again, see Chapter 1).

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  • Willy McCourt, 2006. "Swaziland: Political Commitment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Human Factor in Governance, chapter 6, pages 113-134, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-20830-8_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230208308_6
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