The Governance Evidence Board selects a small set of international indices because they are regularly published, source documented, and comparable across jurisdictions. Each series is closely connected to rule of law, participation, public integrity, state capacity, civic freedom, or formal equality before law. Sources include WGI, Freedom House, BTI, and related World Bank Data360 routes. Each indicator functions as a signal to help citizens, researchers, journalists, and institutions identify where further scrutiny may be needed.
The article mapping is interpretive, not adjudicative. An indicator is linked to a constitutional provision when its subject matter substantially overlaps with the legal interest the provision protects or organises. Participation and political rights indicators are linked to provisions on popular sovereignty, voting, representation, expression, association, and legislative composition. Rule of law indicators are linked to legality, enforcement of fundamental rights, judicial review, and institutional limits on public power. Equality indicators are linked to equality before law and non-discrimination provisions. State capacity indicators are linked only where they help assess whether constitutional promises can be publicly checked through functioning institutions and official records.
The mapping has limits. These indices are not a substitute for Bangladesh's constitutional text, statutes, judgments, election records, gazettes, budgets, or audit materials. WGI scores reflect aggregated expert and survey perceptions, not direct measurements of legal outcomes. Freedom House and BTI scores reflect expert assessment choices and should be read alongside their own published methodologies. BTI is published every two years, so its cards show assessment-year data points only and do not fill in gaps between cycles. A 2014 baseline is used for BTI cards for consistency with the WGI comparison series.
Movement on any card raises an accountability question. It is not a legal finding, not a finding of misconduct, and not evidence that any constitutional provision has been violated. The correct reading is: identify the signal, check the source definition, compare it with domestic legal materials, and ask what explains the movement.
