A report written by the Property Rights Alliance’s Hernando de Soto Fellow Kyle Jackson, and supported seven contributors and 67 “partner” organizations ranks 129 countries on property rights. The rankings are broken into sub-rankings for physical property rights, intellectual property rights, and the “legal and political environment” of each country.
The report’s measurement of strength of IP protection is an amalgam of previous measurements by the IIPA, the World Economic Forum, and an index of patent rights created by World Bank economist Juan Ginarte and American University economics professor Walter Park.
In addition to rankings, the report includes a brief description of property rights of each of the countries surveyed, and some analysis of the effect of property rights overall. It points out that countries with higher levels of IP protection tend to have higher GDPs, but it shows no significant relationship between the strength of IP rights and foreign direct investment or GDP growth.
The full report is here: http://www.internationalpropertyrightsindex.org/
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