Around the table we had entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship resource providers and supporters from the for-profit, not-for-profit, academic, and government (city and federal) arenas.

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Of course there are exceptions, such as Botswana and Namibia (both in the African top five as far as governance is concerned), but most resource-rich countries are well down the table: the DRC, Sudan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Congo (Brazzaville), Nigeria and Angola are all ranked between 34th and 46th in the World Bank's regional rankings.

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