ABSTRACT
This chapter explores one of the best known and most used of the rankings, the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA), illustrating how it works, what critiques it has raised since its publication in 2006, and how it has been modified in the past years in response to critiques about its priorities, criteria and transparency. These changes are then compared with the measurement tools the g7+'s representatives have been advancing, in order to highlight how the merging of conflict and development concerns has played a crucial role in the quantification of the fragile states agenda as much as the agenda has been influenced by quantifying practices more generally. The chapter focuses on the CPIA as the axis around which changes to the Bank's operational policies were conceived and have been practised, such as those that led to the creation of the Post-Conflict Performance Indicators (PCPI).
