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Worldwide Governance Indicators Show Uneven Progress

While this year's update of the research dataset Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) 1996-2008 shows many countries making progress in governance and anti-corruption over the past decade, it also reveals that many countries failed to make such improvements. The eighth release of the WGI highlights the serious challenges that remain for rich and poor countries alike, and draws attention to the well-established link between
better governance and improved development results. At the same time, other countries have stagnated, and worryingly, still others have regressed in key dimensions of governance. In fact, the updated WGI show that current governance standards have plenty of room for improvement in many industrialized countries and emerging economies.

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Aqui o comentário da revista The Economist, que também elaborou o gráfico que ilustra este post.

Government accountability
Better and worse
Which countries are better governed than a decade ago, and which worse
The Economist, July 1st 2009

THE governments of Serbia and Sierra Leone have made the most improvements in accountability in the past decade, according to a new report from the World Bank. In Iraq and Afghanistan, too, governments are more accountable than they were in 1998. But in Eritrea, Thailand, Belarus and Zimbabwe conditions have worsened sharply. In an effort to quantify changes the bank compared aspects of its World Governance Indicators, which are produced each year by aggregating information from scores of organisations, such as Freedom House and the Economist Intelligence Unit. In judging accountability the bank uses measures of civil rights (including freedom of speech, assembly and religion), freedom of participation in elections and press freedom, in 209 countries. While the precision of the data may be debatable, the direction of movement looks plausible.

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Governance Matters 2009
Worldwide Governance Indicators, 1996-2008

The Worldwide Governance Indicators, transparently constructed and available to everyone, are invaluable for policy makers, researchers, and businesspeople around the globe. They are critical for monitoring governance and the quality of state action and growth, making it more difficult for governments to ignore failures, and easier for reformers to persuasively articulate the need for change.”
Andrei Illarionov,
former Economic Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, and currently president of the Institute of Economic Analysis

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2008, for six dimensions of governance:

1) Voice and Accountability
2) Political Stability and Absence of Violence
3) Government Effectiveness
4) Regulatory Quality
5) Rule of Law
6) 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. To download the full dataset for all countries and indicators in Excel format, click here. Documentation of the latest update of the WGI can be found in "Governance Matters VIII: Governance Indicators for 1996–2008." 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 WGI 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.