Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone's Poor Performance in Global Index

With the recent Global Entrepreneurship Index showing Sierra Leone to be right near the bottom of the table when it comes to commerce, we need to start paying serious attention to the problem...

READING through the recent Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) for 2016 one cannot but observe the fact that Sierra Leone comes a disturbing and worrying 128th out of the 132 countries surveyed.

Apart from the fact that the country close to the bottom of the table, it is also frightening to realise that Sierra Leone slipped five places down from last year's ranking when we were 123rd. Apart from the fact that Sierra Leone has performed badly globally, Sierra Leone is also at the bottom of ranking among African countries according to the GEI report.

Sierra Leone stands below the likes of Uganda (123), Benin (124), Burkina Faso (126), Madagascar (127), Mauritania (129), Malawi (130), Burundi (131) and Chad (132), according to the ranking prepared by the Washington-based Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute. Our score is 14.6 compared to the best score of 86.2 by the top-ranking country, the United States, which is followed by Canada, Australia, Denmark and Sweden.

In the survey, Sierra Leone scores 14.2 in entrepreneurial attitude, 21 in entrepreneurial abilities and only 10 in entrepreneurial aspirations.

Source:: Allafrica