It considers six dimensions of governance:[1] These aggregate indicators are based on the views of a large number of enterprise, citizen, and expert survey respondents in both industrial and developing countries.
[3] Creating a set of indicators for the World Governance Index (WGI) is a comprehensive and complex process.
The objective is to measure a modern concept that, despite its historical roots,[4] is currently applied in certain frameworks and implemented by identified entities.
Drawing from the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which was unanimously adopted by heads of state and government in 2000, a team of researchers from the Forum for a new World Governance (FnWG), consisting of Gustavo Marín, Arnaud Blin, and Renaud François, concentrated their research on five core concepts that outline the application framework of world governance and represent key objectives to be achieved by 2015: The research team considered its mission with two goals in mind: The 37 indexes constituting the WGI have been set on a scale from zero to one, a scale similar to the one developed by the United Nations Development Programme for its Human Development Index (HDI).
The 179 countries surveyed in this study —microstates were deliberately not included in this list – were grouped into six regional subgroups: World Governance Index: PDF document, 81 pages.