Instrumental Factors

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• The World Bank Graduates in Social Science, Business and Law (as % of total graduates)
• The World Bank Gross Tertiary Graduation Ratio
• Henley Partners Passport Index
• UN Development Programme Human Development Index
• Numbeo Purchasing Power Index
• Capgemini Number of High Net Worth Individuals
• UN Office of Drugs & Crime Homicide Rates
• Euromonitor Top Tourism Destinations
• The World Bank Average precipitation in depth
• Mercer Quality of Living City Rankings
• Numbeo Health Care Index
• Coursera Global Skills Index
• Ethnologue Linguistic Diversity
• Institute for Economics & Peace Global Terrorism Index
• IMD World Talent Rankings
• Mercer Cost of Living City Rankings
• Numbeo Quality of Life Index
• Numbeo Crime Index
• The World Bank Adjusted net national income per capita
• OECD Household net financial wealth
• The World Bank Educational attainment
• The World Bank Life expectancy at birth, total
• OECD Employees working very long hours
• Cato Institute Human Freedom Index
• Nuclear Threat Initiative, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Economist Impact Global Health Security Index
• The World Bank Patent Applicaitons, Residents
• Education First English proficiency
• Vision Of Humanity Ecological Threat Report
• World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report

• EIU Business Environment Rankings
• EIU Operational Risk Rating
• The World Bank Real Interest Rate
• AT Kearney Global Services Location
• Transparency International Corruption Perception Index
• OECD Average Wages
• KPMG Corporate Tax Rates
• KPMG Individual Income tax rates
• OECD Personal Tax Rates
• The World Bank Tax Revenue as Percentage of GDP
• OECD Bilateral Tax Information Exchange Agreements
• Fraser Institute Economic Freedom of the World
• IMF Government Debt as % of GDP
• OECD OECD Country Risk Classification
• Institute for Economics & Peace Global Peace Index
• Tax Justice Network Financial Secrecy Index
• The World Bank Government Effectiveness
• World Justice Project Open Government
• World Justice Project Regulatory Enforcement
• Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index
• Swiss Association for Standardization (SNV) Currencies
• The Commonwealth Commonwealth Countries
• CIA Common Law Countries
• The World Bank Inflation, GDP Deflator
• The World Bank Rule of Law
• The World Bank Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism
• The World Bank Regulatory Quality
• The World Bank Control of Corruption
• Forbes Best Countries for Business
• Lloyd’s Lloyd’s City Risk Index 2015-2025
• ITU Global Cybersecurity Index
• International Budget Partnership Open Budget Survey
• The Economist Democracy Index
• FATF FATF AML Effectiveness
• TMF Group Global Business Complexity Index
• The World Bank Fintech Activity Index
• RUB WorldRiskReport

• The World Federation of Stock Exchanges Capitalisation of Stock Exchanges
• The World Federation of Stock Exchanges Value of Share Trading
• The World Federation of Stock Exchanges Volume of Share Trading
• The World Federation of Stock Exchanges Broad Stock Index Levels
• The World Federation of Stock Exchanges Value of Bond Trading
• The World Bank Domestic Credit to private sector (% of GDP)
• The World Bank Percentage of Firms Using Banks to Finance Investment
• Investment Company Institute Total Net Assets of Regulated Open-End Funds
• Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions Islamic Finance Country Index
• The Bank for International Settlements Net External Positions of Banks
• The Bank for International Settlements External Positions of Central Banks as a share of GDP
• The World Bank Liner Shipping Connectivity Index
• DHL Global Connectedness Index
• The Brookings Institution Economic Performance Index
• CBI Total issuance of labelled green bonds to December 2018, USDm
• UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative Sustainable Stock Exchanges(Y/N)
• CBI Green Bond Segments on Stock Exchanges(Y/N)
• Findexable The Global Fintech Index
• Z/Yen The Global Green Finance Index
• Climate Bonds Sovereign Green Bond

• CBRE Research Office Occupancy Cost
• Knight Frank Prime International Residential Index
• Jones Lang LaSalle JLL Real Estate Transparency Index
• United Nations Telecommunication Infrastructure Index
• World Economic Forum Quality of Domestic Transport Network
• World Economic Forum Quality of Road Infrastructure
• CIA Roadways per Land Area
• CIA Railways per Land Area
• World Energy Council World Energy Trilemma Index
• Metro Bits Metro Network Length
• Yale University Environmental Performance Index
• Solability Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index
• The World Bank Logistics Performance Index
• TomTom TomTom Trafic Index
• WHO Proportion of population using safely-managed drinking-water services (%)
• INRIX INRIX Traffic Scorecard
• World Bank Forestry Area
• World Bank CO2 Emissions Per Capita
• Open Signal 4G Availability %
• Cable Worldwide Broadband Speed League
• ITDP People Near Services
• NumbeoPollution Index
• IMD Smart City Index
• Enerdata Statistical Yearbook Share of wind and solar in electricity production
• Enerdata Statistical Yearbook Energy Intensity of GDP
• Enerdata Statistical Yearbook Share of renewables in electricity production
• UNFCCC City Commitment to Carbon Reduction(Cooperative Action)
• World Economic Forum Energy Transition Index
• Oliver Wyman Urban Mobility Readiness Index
• MIT Technology Review The Green Future Index
• Agility Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index
• IEA Buildings Energy Efficiency Policies Database

• IMD World Competitiveness Scoreboard
• World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index
• UNCTAD Foreign Direct Investment Inflows
• The World BankGDP per Person Employed(constant 2017 PPP $)
• INSEAD Global Innovation Index
• GIPC International IP Index
• The Economist RPI (% change on year ago)
• IMF Consumer Prices
• World Economic Forum Number of International Association Meetings
• 2ThinkNow Innovation Cities Innovation Cities Global Index
• The Economist Big Mac Index
• Boston Consulting Group Sustainable Economic Development
• Good Country Party Good Country Index
• Legatum Institute Legatum Prosperity Index
• IESE IESE cities in motion index
• UNCTAD FDI Inward Stock as a Percentage of GDP
• Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index
• AT Kearney Global Cities Index
• Henley Partners Quality of Nationality Index
• U.S.News Best Countries
• The Mori Memorial Foundation Global Power City Index
• Trace International TRACE Bribery Risk Matrix
• OECD Jurisdictions Participating In The Convention On Mutual Administrative Assistance In Tax Matters
• Economist Safe Cities
• The Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom
• Dual Citizen The Global Green Economy Index
• Freedom House Level of Internet Freedom
• GGGI Green Growth Index
• Bloom Consulting Country Brand Ranking