Singapore’s civil service has been declared the best in the world, topping the inaugural Blavatnik Index of Public Administration released by Oxford University.

Channel News Asia reported that the university said Singapore excelled in areas such as border services, tax administration, and innovation strategies and practices.

The index, developed by the Blavatnik School of Government, evaluated the public administrations of 120 countries across four domains: strategy and leadership, public policy, national delivery, and people and processes.

Find out more about how Singapore attained the top spot, and how other countries fared.