Via Toby McIntosh, freedominfo.org: “The World Bank is well on its way to developing a country-by-country database “on various transparency and accountability institutions in developing countries…The new database, which may be posted online in a month or so, will summarize national laws on asset disclosure, conflict of interest, freedom of information, and immunity provisions. The Bank also has developed a set of “good practices” against which to measure country laws, according to information provided by Bank officials. The data-gathering effort now covers 78 countries, with an emphasis on developing countries. Of the 78, 53 are so-called IDA countries, a reference to the World Bank’s International Development Association, the facility through which the Bank supports anti-poverty programs in the poorest developing countries with long-term, no interest loans.”