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|PIA|World Bank|Country Policy<br>and Insttutonal<br>Assessment|74 World Bank client<br>countries eligible for<br>concessional fnance.|Annual. Used in<br>the WGI since<br>2005.|Expert/GOV|Expert assessment scored by World Bank country economists<br>following a detailed questonnaire and scoring criteria, subject<br>to centralized review. The CPIA is used to inform the allocaton<br>of concessional lending across countries. Questonnaire and<br>process are similar to the IFAD Rural Sector Performance<br>Assessment (IFD) and the African Development Bank and Asian<br>Development Bank Country Performance Assessments (ADB,<br>ASD). CPIA data for countries eligible for concessional fnance<br>is availablehere.A complete descripton of the methodology<br>and scoring criteria is availablehere.CPIA data are also<br>produced for client countries not eligible for concessional<br>fnance on a three-year rotatng cycle. Data for these countries<br>is notpubliclydisclosed.|
|PRC|Politcal and<br>Economic Risk<br>Consultancy|Report on<br>Corrupton in<br>Asia|16 Asia-Pacifc<br>economies.|Annual. Used in<br>the WGI since<br>1996.|Survey/Firm|Survey of businesspeople gathering informaton on<br>perceptons of corrupton. Details of the survey methodology<br>are available in the survey reporthere.Country-level<br>aggregate responses arepubliclyavailablehere.|
|PRS|Politcal Risk<br>Services Group|Internatonal<br>Country Risk<br>Guide|141 economies<br>covering a global<br>sample.|Monthly. Used<br>in the WGI since<br>1996.|Expert/CBIP|Expert assessment scored by staf of Politcal Risk Services<br>following a structure questonnaire and subject to centralized<br>review. Details on the scoring methodology can be found<br>here.Full dataset is commercially available. Averages of<br>questons as assigned to six WGI indicators are publicly<br>available on the WGI website. Data from December of each<br>calendaryear is used in the WGI.|
|RSF|Reporters<br>Without Borders|Press Freedom<br>Index|178 economies<br>covering a global<br>sample.|Annual. Used in<br>the WGI since<br>2002.|Expert/NGO|Expert assessment based on responses of journalists to a<br>detailed questonnaire. Details on the survey methodology,<br>including links to the questonnaire, arehere.Data is publicly<br>availablehere.|
|TPR|United States<br>Department of<br>State|Trafcking in<br>Persons Report|182 economies<br>covering a global<br>sample.|Annual. Used in<br>the WGI since<br>2000.|Expert/GOV|Expert assessment prepared by State Department staf.<br>Informaton on the methodology, including scoring criteria for<br>the diferent ters, is availablehere. Data are publicly available<br>in each annual report.|
|VAB|Center for<br>Global<br>Democracy at<br>Vanderbilt<br>University|Americas<br>Barometer<br>Survey|26 economies in the<br>Americas.|Every two years.<br>Used in the WGI<br>since 2004.|Survey/HH|Household survey covering economies in the Americas.<br>Record-level survey data is freely publicly availablehere.Full<br>documentaton of the methodology, including questonnaires,<br>interviewer guides, and sampling methodology are available<br>here.|
|VDM|Varietes of<br>Democracy<br>Insttute|Varietes of<br>Democracy|176 economies in a<br>globally representatve<br>sample.|Annual. Used in<br>the WGI since<br>1996.|Expert/NGO|Expert assessment scored by academics recruited by the<br>VDEM project following a detailed methodology. Complete<br>descripton of the codebook,methodology,and aggregaton|

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