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Creating a set of indicators for the World
Governance Index (WGI) is a comprehensive and complex process. The objective is to measure a modern concept that, despite its historical roots, is currently applied in certain frameworks and implemented by identified entities. Although there is agreement on
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The second goal is to motivate world-governance actors to consider the resulting WGI and the relative importance of the different indicators. This should allow them to identify the "key" or "pilot" indicators that will set up the conditions for good world governance and, more importantly, guarantee
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The first was to create a World
Governance Index (WGI) providing an overall picture of world governance at time T based on data obtained for the 179 countries included in the survey. The WGI combines 5 indicators, each made up of 13 sub-indicators, each of those made up of 37 indexes. These indexes
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These aggregate indicators are based on the views of a large number of enterprise, citizen, and expert survey respondents in both industrial and developing countries. The indicators draw from over 30 individual data sources produced by a variety of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental
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their sustainability. The ultimate goal of this study is part of a long-term process. On the basis of the situation described by the WGI and of its diagnosis, it should allow actors in charge of governance to raise the right questions in order to consider solutions.
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Although some of the indexes used (only 4 out of the 37) were drawn from databases that had not been updated since 2007, the 2008 World
Governance Index nevertheless reflects the state of world governance in 2008.
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The 2022 WGI update includes significant revisions to the underlying source data, which affect the data for earlier years in the WGI dataset. This latest release supersedes previous releases.
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Index developed in 2008 by the Forum for a New World
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902:"Worldwide Governance Indicators"
244:Sustainable Governance Indicators
633:Participation in Political Life
531:Homicides / 100,000 inhabitants
249:Bertelsmann Transformation Index
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760:Environmental Performance Index
334:Worldwide Governance Indicators
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552:Protection of Property Rights
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711:Ease in starting a business
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292:Market governance mechanism
275:Governance, risk management
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780:Subjective Well-being
692:Gross Domestic Product
668:Women's Social Rights
546:International Treaties
239:World Governance Index
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617:Freedom of the Press
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659:Gender Inequalities
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