Corruption Perceptions Index
Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) first released in 1995, is the best known of TI's tools. It has been widely credited with putting TI and the issue of corruption on the international policy agenda. The CPI ranks more than 180 countries by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys. A composite index, the CPI is based on 13 different expert and business surveys. It is a survey of surveys, of experts and business persons, based both in the country and abroad. The CPI is not intended to measure a country's progress over time. It is a snapshot of perceptions of corruption, using data published in the past two years.
Global Corruption Barometer is another survey done by Transparency International. It is a worldwide public opinion survey of 73,000 people in 69 countries and territories, measuring their attitudes towards and their experience of corruption in their home countries.
Bribe Payers Index
Bribe Payers Index by Transparency International gives a ranking of 22 leading international and regional exporting countries by the tendency of firms based in those countries to bribe when doing business abroad.
The Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) measures the average achievements in a country in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge and a decent standard of living. This year it has been calculated for 182 countries and areas for which data is available.
Failed States Index
A state that is failing has several attributes. One of the most common is the loss of physical control of its territory or a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Other attributes of state failure include the erosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions, an inability to provide reasonable public services, and the inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community. In this index, the rank order of the states is based on the total scores of 12 indicators. The 12 indicators cover a wide range of elements of the risk of state failure, such as extensive corruption and criminal behavior, inability to collect taxes or otherwise draw on citizen support, large-scale involuntary dislocation of the population, sharp economic decline, group-based inequality, institutionalized persecution or discrimination, severe demographic pressures, brain drain, and environmental decay. States can fail at varying rates through explosion, implosion, erosion, or invasion over different time periods. For each indicator, the ratings are placed on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being the lowest intensity (most stable) and 10 being the highest intensity (least stable). The total score is the sum of the 12 indicators and is on a scale of 0-120. FfP's original methodology breaks the countries into four colored zones based on their aggregate scores. A country in the "Alert" zone has an aggregate score between 90 and 120. A country that is colored orange, the "Warning" zone, scores between 60 and 89.9. A country colored yellow, the "Monitoring" zone, has an aggregate score between 30 and 59.9. A country colored green, the "Sustainable" zone, has an aggregate score of 29.9 or less. It is important to note that these ratings do not necessarily predict when states may experience violence or collapse. Rather, they measure vulnerability to collapse or conflict. All countries in the red, orange, or yellow categories display features that make significant parts of their societies and institutions vulnerable to failure.
Global Competitiveness Index
Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) is generated by World Economic Forum, which is an independent international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas and striving towards a world-class corporate governance system. GCI determines the economic competitiveness level and ability of a country to provide high levels of income and prosperity to its citizens. Each of the governance indicators is evaluated on a scale of plus and minus 2.5. Positive 2.5 indicates highest level of governance and negative 2.5 represents lowest level of governance.
Enterprise Surveys
Enterprise Surveys of the World Bank, provide the world's most comprehensive company-level data in emerging markets and developing economies. Companies around the world face a variety of obstacles when engaging in business -- from long delays in securing permits and licenses in some countries to dealing with corrupt government officials in others. The costs in terms of economic growth and job creation can be enormous. The data from surveys of over 100,000 firms in 121 countries, worldwide, are used to create indicators that benchmark the quality of the business and investment climate across countries and helps in understanding some of the challenges facing a business in the selected country.
Ease of Doing Business Surveys
On the Ease of Doing Business Surveys of the World Bank, Economies are ranked by comparing regulations in 183 economies on their ease of doing business, from 1 - 183, with first place being the best. A high ranking on the ease of doing business index means the regulatory environment is conducive to the operation of business.
Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)
The indicators measure six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. They cover 212 countries and territories for 1996, 1998, 2000, and annually for 2002-2008. The indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 35 separate data sources constructed by 33 different organizations from around the world.
The Global Integrity Index
The Global Integrity Index generated by Global Integrity an international organization, annually assesses the existence, effectiveness, and citizen access to key national-level anti-corruption mechanisms across a diverse range of countries. The Global Integrity Index assesses the existence, effectiveness, and citizen access to key national-level anti-corruption mechanisms used to hold governments accountable. The Index does not measure corruption. Rather than examine the "cancer" of corruption, the Index investigates the "medicine" being used against it - in the form of government accountability, transparency, and citizen oversight. The Global Integrity Index is generated by aggregating more than 300 Integrity Indicators systematically gathered for each country covered. For the Global Integrity Index: 2009, those indicators comprised more than 100,000 peer-reviewed questions and answers scored by in-country experts. Several rounds of review are conducted at the international level to ensure that cross-country comparisons are valid. In addition, all assessments are reviewed by a country-specific, double-blind peer review panel comprising additional local and international subject matter experts.
The Afrobarometer
The Afrobarometer is an independent, nonpartisan research project that measures the social, political, and economic atmosphere in Africa. Afrobarometer surveys are conducted in more that a dozen African countries and are repeated on a regular cycle. Because the instrument asks a standard set of questions, countries can be systematically compared. Trends in public attitudes are tracked over time. Results are shared with decision makers, policy advocates, civic educators, journalists, researchers, donors and investors, as well as average Africans who wish to become more informed and active citizens. It is a comparative series of national public
attitude surveys on democracy, markets, and civil society in Africa.
East Asian Barometer
The Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) grows out of the Comparative Survey of Democratization and Value Change in East Asia Project (also known as East Asia Barometer), which was launched in mid-2000 and funded by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan under the MOE-NSC Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of University. In organizing its first-wave survey (2001-2003), the East Asia Barometer (EABS) brought together 13 country teams and more than 30 leading scholars from across the region and the United States. Since its founding, the EABS Project has been increasingly recognized as the region's first largest, systematic and most careful comparative survey of attitudes and orientations toward politics, power, political regime, democracy, governance, and economic reform and citizens' political actions in East Asia. Cross-national comparative surveys have been implemented in nine East Asian political systems -namely Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Mainland China, Mongolia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. In each of the nine countries or regions, a national research team administers a country-wide face-to-face survey using standardized survey instruments to compile the required micro-level data under a common research framework and research methodology.
In July 2001, the EABS joined with three partner projects -- Latinobarometro, Afrobarometer, and Arab Barometer -- in a path-breathing effort to launch Globalbarometer Survey (GBS), a global consortium of comparative surveys across emerging democracies and transitional societies.
Ibrahim Index of African Governance
The Ibrahim Index of African Governance is a comprehensive ranking of African countries according to governance quality. Funded and led by an African institution, the Ibrahim Index aims to be Africa's leading assessment of governance that informs and empowers citizens to hold their governments and public institutions to account. Purpose is to stimulate debate in a constructive way and establish a framework for good governance in Africa.
The Ibrahim Index measures the delivery of public goods and services to citizens by government and non-state actors. The Ibrahim Index uses indicators across four main pillars: Safety and Rule of Law; Participation and Human Rights; Sustainable Economic Opportunity; and Human Development as proxies for the quality of the processes and outcomes of governance.
The Ibrahim Index assesses governance against 84 criteria, making it the most comprehensive collection of qualitative and quantitative data that measures governance in Africa. The criteria are divided into four main categories and 13 sub-categories. The indicators that make up the sub-categories are based either on official data (OD) or expert assessment (EA).
