The WorldbankWorldwide Governance Indicators

Six Key Dimensions of Governance

1. Voice and Accountability.

2. Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism.

3. Government Effectiveness.

4. Regulatory Quality

5. Rule of Law.

6. Control of Corruption.

90th-100th Percentile (extremely high) 

75th-90th Percentile (high)

50th-75th Percentile (around average)   

25th-50th Percentile (low)  

10th-25th Percentile (very low) 

0th-10th Percentile (extremely low)

The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Critiques and Responses (by World Bank)

1. Comparability over time and across countries

2. Biases in Expert Assessments

3. Correlated Perception Errors

4. Definitional Issues

5. Reliance on "Subjective" Data

Data Sources for the Worldwide Governance Indicators

Surveys of Households and Firms: Afrobarometer; AmericasBarometer; Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey; Gallup World Poll; Global Competitiveness Report; Global Corruption Barometer; Latinobarometer; Political Economic Risk Consultancy; World Competitiveness Yearbook.

Commercial Business Information Providers: Business Environment Risk Intelligence; Economist Intelligence Unit; Global Insight; iJET Country Security Ratings; Merchant International Group; Political Risk Services.

Nongovernmental Organizations: Bertelsmann Transformation Index; Freedom House; Global E-Governance Index; Global Integrity Index; Heritage Foundation; International Research and Exchanges Board; Reporters Without Borders; Open Budget Index.

Public Sector Organizations: African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and World Bank Country Policy and Institutional Assessments; Cingranelli-Richards Human Rights Database; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Transition Report; French Ministry of Finance Institutional Profiles Database; International Fund for Agricultural Development Rural Sector Performance Assessments; OECD Development Center African Economic Outlook; U.S. State Department Traffickingin Persons Report.

The Bertelsmann Transformation Index

does not include:

– the US– Canada– Western Europe– Australia– New Zealand– Japan

i.e. countries that have achieved a “fully consodidated democracy and market economy“

  

Источники.

• http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp

• http://www.bertelsmann-transformation-index.de/46.0.html?&L=1