Signal Investors' Rights spread runs from 1.7 SD above peers in Malaysia to 2.0 SD below in Lao PDR

Summary

Institutional Framework is the category in which the six Southeast Asian growth markets differ most from one another. Investors' Rights shows the widest spread within it. On average the group scores below other developing economies on this subcategory. Individual results, however, range from 1.7 standard deviations above the peer average in Malaysia to 2.0 standard deviations below it in Lao PDR. That near four-point gap means the group average says little about how any single country protects investors, so country-level assessment matters.