• Worldwide Governance Indicators

    A global compilation of data capturing household, business, and citizen perceptions of the quality of governance in more than 200 economies.

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Workshop on Data Sources for WGI (March 14, 2025)

We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming workshop on primary Data Sources of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), which will take place on March 14, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM.

This workshop aims to deepen understanding of the methodologies behind these data sources, discuss respondent profiles, foster collaboration and knowledge sharing between the data sources and the WGI team, and help identify relevant additional data sources from the Global South.

Please find the workshop’s agenda below for further details. We welcome all participants.

Click here to join the event on March 14 at 8:30 a.m. (EST)

MS Teams Connection details: 

Meeting ID: 217 131 235 69

Passcode: PU3C6Xv9

Agenda of the day

TimeActivityPresenters

08:00 AM – 08:30 AM

Breakfast

08:30 AM – 08:35 AM

Opening Remarks

  • Indermit Gill, Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics

08:35 AM – 09:10 AM

A View from the Global South

  • Senior Representatives from the Global South
  • Moderator: Norman Loayza, Director of World Bank Development Economics Global Indicators Group

09:10 AM – 09:15 AM

Agenda of the Day

  • Charlotte Nan Jiang, Manager of Worldwide Governance Indicators

09:15 AM – 10:30 AM

Session 1 – Firm Surveys: Presentations and Discussion

  • World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey: Attilio Di Battista, Head of Impact Design and Coordination
  • World Bank Enterprise Surveys: Jorge Rodriguez Meza, Manager
  • Institute for Management & Development World Competitiveness Yearbook: Arturo Bris, Director
  • Political Economic Risk Consultancy: Robert Broadfoot, Managing Director
  • Discussion Session

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Coffee Break

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Session 2 – Public Sector Expert Assessments: Presentations and Discussion

  • World Bank Country Policy and Institutional Assessments: Mona Prasad, Economic Adviser
  • African Development Bank Country Policy and Institutional Assessments: Toussaint Houeninvo, Chief Country Economist
  • Asian Development Bank Country Performance Assessments: Rommel Rabanal, Senior Economist
  • Discussion Session

12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

Lunch

01:00 PM – 02:15 PM

Session 3 – Private Sector Expert Assessments: Presentations and Discussion

  • Economist Intelligence Unit: Constance Hunter, Chief Economist
  • The PRS Group International Country Risk Guide: Chris McKee, CEO
  • Crisis24 Country Security Assessment Rating: Jonathon Keymer, Director of Intelligence
  • Discussion Session

02:15 PM – 02:30 PM

Coffee Break

02:30 PM – 03:45 PM

Session 4 – NGO Sector Expert Assessments: Presentations and Discussion

  • World Justice Project Rule of Law Index: Alicia Evangelides, Director
  • Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index: Blanche Marès, Head of the Press Freedom Index
  • Africa Integrity Indicators: Alex Jiya, Head of Governance and Accountability
  • Discussion Session

03:45 AM – 05:00 PM

Session 5 – Household Surveys: Presentations and Discussion

  • Gallup World Poll: Rajesh Srinivasan, Global Research Director
  • Afrobarometer: Boniface Dulani, Director of Survey
  • Latinobarometro: Marta Lagos, Founding Director
  • Discussion Session

05:00 PM – 05:15 PM

Main Takeaways

  • Charlotte Nan Jiang, Manager of Worldwide Governance Indicators

05:15 PM – 05:20 PM

Closing Remarks

  • Norman Loayza, Director of World Bank Development Economics Global Indicators Group

Formation of Advisory Committee on WGI Methodology (February 2025)

For over two decades, the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) has been a leading global project for measuring perceptions of governance. As part of our commitment to maintaining the highest standards in governance measurement, we have convened an Advisory Committee to review and, if necessary, refine key aspects of the WGI methodology.

This review focuses on three critical questions:

  1. The selection of primary data sources
  2. The choice of governance dimensions (thematic areas)
  3. The statistical method used to aggregate primary data into country-year indicators

The Advisory Committee comprises distinguished experts in governance, statistics, and composite indicator methodology, including:

External committee members:

  1. Joseph Asunka (CEO, Afrobarometer)
  2. Eduardo Engel (Professor, University of Chile)
  3. Kyle Marquardt (Professor, University of Bergen. Head of Methodology for Varieties of Democracy)
  4. Karthik Muralidharan (Professor, University of California, San Diego)
  5. Benjamin Reist (Principal Statistician, NORC at the University of Chicago)
  6. Rajesh Srinivasan (Global Research Director, Gallup World Poll)
  7. Martin Williams (Associate Professor, University of Michigan and Oxford University)

World Bank committee members:

  1. Aart Kraay (Chief Economist, Prosperity Vertical)
  2. Bob Rijkers (Senior Economist, Research Group)
  3. Daniel Rogger (Research Manager, Impact Group)
  4. Mahvish Shaukat (Economist, Research Group)

Their expertise will help ensure the WGI remains a rigorous and credible tool for assessing governance worldwide.