Georgia shows improvement in World Bank survey on governance

Georgia has shown an improvement in the World Bank's recent study 'Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)' in terms of government effectiveness and regulatory quality.

Georgia received 76.92 per cent from the total 100 per cent scale for government effectiveness and 82.69 per cent for regulatory quality, which assesses reforms carried out by the government for the development of the private sector.

The Worldwide Governance Indicators project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for over 200 countries and territories over the period 1996–2018, for six dimensions of governance, which are:

1. Voice and accountability - in which Georgia received 53.20 per cent
2. Political stability and absence of violence - 29.05 per cent
3. Government effectiveness - 76.92 per cent
4. Regulatory quality - 82.69 per cent
5. Rule of law - 62.02 per cent
6. Control of corruption - 74.04 per cent

Georgian Prime Minister’s Economic Advisor Beka Liluashvili commented on the World Bank’s recent Worldwide Governance Indicators research, saying that in terms of control of corruption, Georgia is a regional leader ranked among Europe’s top 20 countries for third time in a row, ahead of such EU member states as Spain,Cyprus, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Malta, Croat, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia and the Czech Republic.

In the government effectiveness indicator, Georgia has reached a historic high, ranking 37th in the world and 24th in Europe, ahead of such countries as Greece, Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria, and others. 

Another important indicator is the rule of law, in which Georgia is ahead of seven NATO member states, three EU member states, and this particular indicator is based on the final assessments by 11 leading think-tanks and the US State Department. To summarise, the country’s democratic institutions are developing irreversibly, and this process will continue,” the Prime Minister’s Advisor Beka Liluashvili said.

The survey combines the views of a large number of businesses, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. They are based on over 30 individual data sources produced by a variety of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organisations, international organisations, and private sector firms.