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IDA Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) and Country Performance Rating (CPR)

Allocation of IDA resources among eligible countries factors in each country's performance in implementing policies that promote economic growth and poverty reduction. This bas been assessed by the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). The overall country score is referred to as the IDA Resource Allocation Index (IRAI). In addition to the IRAI, portfolio performance and governance also feature in the allocation process. Together, the IRAI, portfolio performance and governance constitute the IDA Country Performance Rating (CPR).

Governance Indicators, World Bank Institute (WBI)

The World Bank Institute (WBI), in collaboration with other units in the World Bank Group, uses participatory learning, capacity-building tools, and the power of data to support countries in improving governance and controlling corruption. The WBI website presents updated governance research indicators for 213 countries for 1996-2005, for various dimensions of governance.

Doing Business

The Doing Business database provides measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 175 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity, and growth.

Anticorruption in Transition 3-Who is Succeeding … And Why?

Anticorruption in Transition 3 (ACT3) takes a detailed look at firm-level survey data and concludes that the region's progress in reducing corruption is unmistakable. ACT3 is the third in a series of World Bank reports tracking levels of corruption in enterprise-state interactions since 1999. Like its predecessors, ACT3 draws on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), a joint initiative of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank.