Why are some new countries included in the CPI?
The change in country coverage in the 2007 CPI relates to the fact that three new sources have been included: the Asian Development Bank’s Country Performance Assessment Ratings, the African Development Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessments and the Bertelsmann Transformation Index. This allowed for the inclusion of Afghanistan, Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Kiribati, Liberia, Maldives, Montenegro, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tonga and Vanuatu.
