“I like the indicators... I have liked the methodology - and in particular the fact that it discloses the margins of error (I also think GDP estimates ought to have them). The [WGI indicators] are very useful and provide with the ability to make robust comparisons. I think it has stood up quite well.”
Simon Johnson,
Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and former chief economist at IMF. Quote extracted from Roundtable Discussion on Measuring Governance, held on January 11, 2007 at the World Bank |
The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project
reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2007, for six dimensions of governance:
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Voice and Accountability |
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Political Stability and Absence of Violence |
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Government Effectiveness |
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Regulatory Quality |
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Rule of Law |
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Control of Corruption |
The aggregate indicators combine the views of a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. The individual data sources underlying the aggregate indicators are drawn from a diverse variety of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations.
The six aggregate indicators and the underlying data sources can be viewed interactively on the Governance Indicators webpage of this site. Documentation of the latest update of the WGI can be found in "Governance Matters VII: Governance Indicators for 1996–2007." Further documentation and research using the WGI is available on the Resources page of this website or at www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance.
Disclaimer: The aggregate indicators do not reflect the official views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. The WGI are not used by the World Bank Group to allocate resources or for any other official purpose. |
