Astana, July 12, 2007 — The report, Governance Matters, 2007: Worldwide Governance Indicators 1996-2006 launched by the World Bank Institute and the World Bank Development Economics Vice-presidency, shows that a number of countries in the world are making progress in improving governance and fighting corruption. This is encouraging given that good governance and corruption control are fundamental for long-term growth and reducing poverty.
This year’s report represents a decade-long effort by the researchers to build and update the most comprehensive cross-country set of governance indicators currently available to the public. The selected six indicators cover 212 countries and territories, drawing on 33 different data sources to capture the views of tens of thousands of survey respondents worldwide, as well as thousands of experts in the private, NGO, and public sectors.
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