Importance Whereas the institutional environment should be improved during the transformation of socio-economic systems, there should be relevant methodological tools to analyze and evaluate it. Researches, scholarly teams and large international organizations devised a lot of various methods, including World Governance Indicators (WGI). Therefore, it is reasonable to determine opportunities and constraints of this method for purposes of evaluation of Russia’s institutional environment. Objectives The research identifies and indicates what impedes the use of the WGI method proposed by the World Bank, and analyzes trends in the development of Russia’s institutional environment using this method. Methods Using methods of dynamic, situation and comparative analysis and the indicative method based on the World Bank’s WGI, I evaluate and investigate the development of Russia’s institutional environment. Results Having evaluated the development of Russia’s institutional environment and analyzed its trends in 2000–2015, I concluded that, notwithstanding positive trends in most WGIs, almost each indicator of Russia lagged behind not only foreign countries, but also some countries of the BRICS and CIS. Conclusions and Relevance WGI methods face certain practical constraints due their complexity, with some source indicators being incomparable in terms of time and space, and indicators used to assess WGI being disputable. If applied, the method will allow for evaluating the institutional environment by different aspect, i.e. the efficiency of governmental authorities, civil rights and freedoms, political stability, security, legislative regulation, supremacy of law, and corruption.
Keywords: WGI, institutional environment, efficiency, public administration
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