Bo contrast, South Africa (42nd) improved by 11 places in a year marked by what RSF calls its "laudable legislative developments" which saw the president refuse to sign a law that would have threatened media freedom.
Social protection has risen in prominence in political dialogue in The Gambia through laudable policy developments such as the assembly of the Social Protection Consultative Forum in November 2012 and the establishment of the National Social Protection Steering Committee, both of which mark important steps towards reform in the sector.
Additionally, the chapter eloquently discusses how recent military surgical experiences have been brought into civilian centers at a more laudable pace than many, previous developments.
Maximizing its impact as a vehicle for development is a laudable goal.
After all, whether the body under assault is the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank, the institutions' stated aims are surely laudable: liberalized trade, economic rescue and development.
In his letter, Davies said: "However laudable our intentions, in the light of developments in Libya the consequences have been highly unfortunate, and I must take responsibility for that".
The Agreement included a whole section dedicated to an impressive range of human rights.33 Although a laudable effort and very much a positive development in itself, the ensuing peace was not long-lasting.
However laudable arguments for diversifying the land may be, such developments can bring local opposition and so any investor will also have to manage local politics carefully.
However laudable, the goals wrongly invite people to think of development as akin to an "engineering problem", as Lant Pritchett, now of Harvard University, and Michael Woolcock of the World Bank have argued.
Firstly, it is not a matter of lowering our sights merely to the creation of a transatlantic free trade area, but of making sure the development of our trade serves other more laudable objectives, which promote social and environmental standards.
