The IFs system has collected information on governance quality from "Governance Matters VII: Governance Indicators for 1996–2007", a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper published in 2008, authored by D. Kaufmann A. Kraay, and M. Mastruzzi. The dataset provides estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 212 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004-2006.
GovWBGovMatCorrupt-Indicator of Control of corruption, on a scale of -2.5 to 2.5, where a higher score indicates better control over corruption.
GovWBGovMatPolStab-Indicator of Political Stability and absence of violence. , on a scale of -2.5 to 2.5 where a higher score indicates higher political stability.
GovWBGovMatRuleLaw-Indicator of quality of rule of law, on a scale of -2.5 to 2.5, where a higher score indicates better rule of law.
GovWBGovMatVoiceAcct-Indicator of Voice and accountability, on a scale of -2.5 to 2.5 where a higher score indicates better Voice for citizens and higher accountability.
Issues with Data import for certain countries- In certain cases, IFs does not populate data in relation to countries such as Cape Verde, Taiwan, Ivory Coast. It is recommended, that the importer verify the data in relation to said countries in order to ensure that there are no discrepancies.
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