Governance Data
The World Bank views good governance and anti-corruption as central to its poverty alleviation mission. Considerable evidence suggests that countries with good governance and low corruption are more successful in capacity development. The Governance group supports the collection, rigorous analysis, careful interpretation, and transparent dissemination of data for empirical research, capacity-building, and learning programs. Some datasets listed in this site are accessible for interactive interface with the web user as an 'e-learning' tool.
Knowledge Assessment Methodology
WBI's Knowledge for Development (K4D) program helps developing countries make more effective use of knowledge for their overall economic and social development.The K4D Program provides policy advice to client countries on four Knowledge Economy (KE) pillars: economic and institutional regime, education, innovation, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to help them make the transition to a KE. As part of its toolkit, the K4D program uses a knowledge assessment methodology (KAM) that helps to benchmark how an economy compares with its neighbors, competitors, or others it wishes to emulate. The KAM is designed to help client countries understand their strengths and weaknesses in making the transition to the knowledge economy. It is thus useful in identifying the challenges and opportunities that a country faces, and where it may need to focus policy attention or future investments. In so doing, the KAM provides a preliminary knowledge economy assessment of a country, which can form the basis for more detailed sector-specific work. Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA)
The World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment is done annually for all its borrowing countries. It has evolved into a set of criteria, which are grouped in four clusters: (a) economic management; (b) structural policies; (c) policies for social inclusion and equity; and (d) public sector management and institutions. The number of criteria, currently sixteen, reflect a balance between ensuring that all key factors that foster pro-poor growth and poverty alleviation are captured, without overly burdening the evaluation process. Ratings for each of the criteria reflect a variety of indicators, observations, and judgments. They focus on the quality of each country’s current policies and institutions – which are the main determinant of present aid effectiveness prospects. To fully underscore the importance of the CPIA in the IDA Performance Based Allocations, the overall country score is referred to as the IDA Resource Allocation Index (IRAI).
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