The quality of the governing act hasn't improved significantly through the past decade, despite the individual improvements of several countries, a World Bank report shows.

For all countries where the governance improved there was equal worsening in other countries, while in several cases there were no significant changes in any direction.

The governing act deteriorated in Zimbabwe, the Ivory Coast, Belarus and Venezuela.

Still in several countries, including on African soil, better governing and anti-graft results were visible.

The news giving hope is that a significant number of countries made visible progress in a relatively short time, and this is essential in offering better assistance and economic support on a long term - is the point of view of Daniel Kaufmann, one of the authors.