Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … institutions, iii) a challenge within public sectors, and, iv) divorced from global governance or security issues - seen as … governance constraints, and corruption in particular, is a key determinant of a country's global competitiveness. These findings …

This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time … of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources constructed by 18 different organizations. We assign these individual … measures of governance to categories capturing key dimensions of governance, and use an unobserved components model to …

better quality of governance leads to better development outcomes. …This paper attempts to propose a methodology to combine different dimensions of governance indicators into a composite … index. The governance index is computed as the weighted average of principal components of the standardized governance …

process of development, shedding new light on the origin of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural …

and evolution of trade networks by means of real-time animations. Data tables and charts reporting descriptive performance …

This chapter examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained … economic growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of … and development. The inconsistency of non-unified growth models with the main characteristics of the process of …