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Rule of Law Coalition

The Coalition for the Rule of Law in Global Markets promotes and defends the rule of law in global markets as a critical factor in fostering a worldwide investment climate that supports equality, economic growth, and shared prosperity.

Established in 2010, the Coalition for the Rule of Law in Global Markets (“Rule of Law Coalition”) was founded as a platform to leverage private sector solutions to remedy and strengthen the rule of law in global markets to foster a worldwide business environment where countries respect the rule of law and provide due process under law to investors, producers, and service providers of every nationality. The Coalition supports and defends constitutionalism as the underpinning for the broader application of the rule of law and highlights violations while advocating for prompt and just resolutions. The Coalition considers access to, and respect for, the rule of law in the global marketplace to be the cornerstone of doing business abroad and the basis for healthy international investment and capital flows. 

The Rule of Law Coalition’s Areas of Focus

The Rule of Law Coalition’s main areas of focus include, but are not limited to:  

    Objectives of the Coalition for Rule of Law in Global Markets

    The objectives of the Rule of Law Coalition are to:

      The rule of law is among the most crucial factors in a company’s ability to achieve business profitably in any given market over time.

      For a privately owned company whose continued operations are dependent on a return on investment over time, there are several factors related to the rule of law that will determine its ability to make rational investment and operating decisions, and thereby have a reasonable expectation of returning a profit:

        Throughout the world, countries that actively promote and defend the rule of law are fostering an investment climate that supports job creation, economic growth, and shared prosperity.

        Leaders in the rule of law share insights for creating an inclusive economy through digital connections.

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        About the Global Rule of Law and Business Dashboard

        Since 2013, the Rule of Law Coalition has produced its Global Rule of Law and Business Dashboard, released every two years, in partnership with research firm Pugatch Consilium. The Dashboard offers the business community, governments, policymakers, and stakeholders across the world an innovative, empirical tool to measure and understand the needs of the business community within a rule of law context. Importantly, it demonstrates the state of rule of law in global and regional contexts, and the close relationship between adherence to the rule of law and the ability to attract investment.

        The Dashboard has grown from an initial sample of 10 markets in the Americas to now 113 markets globally, measuring governments’ adherence to the five factors that contribute to a strong rule of law and investment climate: transparency, predictability, stability, accountability, and due process. Those five factors provide businesses with confidence in the integrity of public and private institutions to make trade and investment decisions where there is fairness, enforcement, and proper adjudication of the law, and their presence is correlated with increased investment, economic growth, and job creation. The Dashboard provides users with an easy-to-understand yet statistically credible meta-measure of the rule of law environment as it relates to business, relying on information and research contained in seven internationally accepted indices and surveys. As the report has expanded, the results continue to show that rule of law remains a challenge globally. Meanwhile, the private sector remains critical in co-creating solutions to remedy the rule of law and enhance public integrity. 

        This research based tool, covering 113 markets, regional profiles, and trend summaries and case studies highlight why the Coalition for the Rule of Law in Global Markets and its members are focused on the rule of law as a building block for economic recovery.

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