Nigeria, May 7 -- Imagine a country that lost over 14% of its population thirty-two years ago this year in a genocide. A country where infrastructure was devastated, all the country's major sectors including agriculture, education, health and the justice sector were destroyed. Where most of the genocide perpetrators remained in the country.

The country is Rwanda and because of the nearly complete destruction, few thought Rwanda would be able to rebuild after the Genocide Against the Tutsis in 1994.

Fast forward thirty-two years: at the World Bank meetings last month in Washington, D.C. Rwanda was honoured for its very strong performance in the newly launched Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+).

According to the World Bank, the Index "measu...