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Issue 10, August 2009

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International Assessments of Mexico's Quality of Governance Print

The World Bank defines governance as consisting of “the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised.  This includes the process by which governments are selected, run, and replaced; the capacity of government to effectively formulate and implement sound policies, and the respect of citizens and the state for the institutions that govern economic and social interactions among them.”  

Each year, in its Governance Matters program, the Bank ranks 212 countries on six world government indices, using 35 different data sources.  Below is a summary of findings related to Mexico from 1998-2007.  Zero correlates to the lowest quality of governance and 100 to the highest.

WGI Indicators 

 

 

Source: Kaufmann D., A. Kraay, and M. Mastruzzi 2008: Governance Matters VII: Governance Indicators for 1996-2007.  http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp
From the World Bank:  “Note: The governance indicators presented here aggregate the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. These data are gathered from a number of survey institutes, think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations. The aggregate indicators do not reflect the official views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. The WGI are not used by the World Bank Group to allocate resources or for any other official purpose.”