The International Property Rights Index (IPRI) is the first international comparative study that measures the significance of both physical and intellectual property rights and their protection for economic well-being. The parent organization Property Rights Alliance, has initiated a series of IPRI studies for the Hernando de Soto Fellowship Program that will contribute to developing accurate and comprehensive measures regarding property rights (PR) on an international scale.

The International Property Rights Index will provide the public, researchers and policymakers, from across the globe, with a tool for comparative analysis and future research on global property rights. In order to incorporate and grasp the important aspects related to property rights protection, the Index focuses on three areas: Legal and Political Environment (LP), Physical Property Rights (PPR), and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The current study analyzes data for 129 countries around the globe, representing ninety-seven percent of world GDP. Of great importance, the 2011 gauge incorporates data of PR protection from various sources, often directly obtained from expert surveys within the evaluated countries.

The 2011 Partner Organizations include:

Adriatic Institute for Public Policy (AI)
Albanian Socio Economic Think Tank (ASET)
Alternate Solutions Institute
Asociación de Consumidores Libres
Association for Liberal Thinking
Austrian Economics Center (AEC)
Bishkek Business Club
Cathay Institute for Public Affairs
Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge for Freedom (CEDICE)
Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED)
Center for Free Enterprise (CFE)
Center for Institutional Analysis and Development (CADI)
Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies (CLDS)
Center for Mozambican and International Studies (CEMO)
Center of Research for Development (CIDAC)
Le Centre Des Affaires Humaines (CEDAH)
Central Asian Free Market Institute
Centre for Civil Society
Centre for Policy Research (CPR)
Centro de Investigaciones de Instituciones y Mercados de Argentina (CIIMA-ESEADE)
Civita
Competere
EBI Think Tank Institute (EBI)
Eudoxa
European Coalition for Economic Growth (ECEG)
F.A. Hayek Foundation (FAHF)
F.A. v. Hayek Institute
The Free Market Foundation
Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Fundación Atlas 1853
Fundación IDEA
Fundación Libertad – Argentina
Fundación Libertad – Panama
IMANI Center for Policy and Education
The Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA)
Institut Constant de Rebecque
Institute of Political Economy
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS)
The Institute for Free Enterprise (IUF)
Institute of Future Studies for Development (IFD)
Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Institute for Market Economics (IME)
Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)
Instituto de Libre Empresa (ILE)
Instituto Liberdade (IL-RS)
International Research Foundation (IRF)
Iraq Institute for Economic Reform (IIER)
Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS)
Liberales Institut
Libertad y Desarrollo
Liberty Institute
Limited Government
The Lion Rock Institute
Ludwig von Mises Institute
Minimal Government Thinkers, Inc.
The Nassau Institute
New Economic School (NESG)
New Zealand Business Roundtable
OHRID Institute for Economic Strategies and International Affairs
Pal-Think for Strategic Studies
Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education (PAFERE)
Samriddhi Foundation
Timbro
The Unirule Institute of Economics
The Ukrainian Reform Support Foundation
The Zambia Institute for Public Policy Analysis (ZIPPA)