An index measuring the quality of judicial processes for enforcing contracts, scored from 0 to 18. The index aggregates four sub-indices: court structure and proceedings, case management, court automation, and alternative dispute resolution. It was produced by the World Bank's Doing Business project using the DB17-20 methodology.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national judicial systems using the 0-18 quality of judicial processes index.
- Analyzing the impact of court automation on contract enforcement by examining the court automation sub-index.
- Correlating the case management sub-index with economic outcomes like foreign direct investment.
- Evaluating the adoption of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms across jurisdictions via the ADR sub-index.
- Modeling the relationship between the court structure and proceedings sub-index and time to resolve commercial disputes.
Strengths
- Index constructed from a standardized 0-18 scale for cross-country comparison.
- Based on a defined methodology from the DB17-20 Doing Business studies.
- Covers four specific dimensions: structure, management, automation, and ADR.
Limitations
- Underlying raw data, sample size, and specific country coverage are not provided.
- Index values are aggregates; granular case-level or court-level data is unavailable.
- Methodology is tied to the discontinued Doing Business project, which may affect updates.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank, Doing Business project.
- Collection Method
- Index computed based on the DB17-20 methodology, aggregating assessments of judicial processes.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Coverage is cross-country, but specific countries are not listed.