A new institutional DATABASE: "Institutional profiles 2006"
published in September 2007
The "2006 Institutional Profiles" database offers a battery of 356 variables for 85 developing, in transition and developed countries, accounting for 90% of the world‘s GDP and population. A first version of the database, published in 2001, covered 51 countries. The next survey will take place in 2009. This document sets out the starting hypotheses, the method of compilation and the results of an initial statistical exploration of the database.