relationship from better governance to better development outcomes …Six new aggregate measures capturing various dimensions of governance provide new evidence of a strong causal …

With the right method, aggregate indicators can provide useful estimates of basic governance concepts as well as …

This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 … countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political … dimensions of governance, taken from 35 data sources provided by 33 different organizations. The data reflect the views on …

This paper summarizes the methodology of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project, and related analytical … issues. The WGI cover over 200 countries and territories, measuring six dimensions of governance starting in 1996: Voice and … wide variety of existing data sources. The data reflect the views on governance of survey respondents and public, private …

the inherent difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data. The authors also briefly describe the evolution …This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 … countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2007: Voice and Accountability, Political …

This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project covering 212 … countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: voice and accountability, political … dimensions of governance taken from 33 data sources provided by 30 different organizations. The data reflect the views on …

The Worldwide Governance Indicators, reporting estimates of six dimensions of governance for over 200 countries between …

The authors report on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 213 countries and territories … and measuring six dimensions of governance from 1996 until end-2005: voice and accountability, political stability and … experts worldwide. Although global averages of governance display no marked trends during 1996-2005, nearly one-third of …

"The authors present the latest update of their aggregate governance indicators, together with new analysis of several … issues related to the use of these measures. The governance indicators measure the following six dimensions of governance: (1 …. They are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 37 separate data …