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 …

financing reform, and transparency in parliaments, the judiciary and the executive. Recommendations on governance strategies for … worldwide governance, and present recent empirical evidence. Focusing on defining and unbundling key governance components, such … and governance, in controlling corruption, and in improving institutional quality -- although there is clearly variance …

existing literature on transparency in finance and governance, indicates remaining knowledge gaps, and offers some hypothesis … select consequences of transparency for national-level and local governance, identifying some policy implications and …The study of transparency is increasingly a more topical, broadly relevant, but also more under-researched enterprise …

about state capacity in Nigeria by taking stock of economic and governance issues. Using a simple growth model, we …

investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that governance is key to the business environment and … investment climate. The survey findings suggest that key policy, institutional and governance indicators affect the growth of a …

topic of governance saw us fly off in many directions, and after some discussion of public sector reform processes we found … the aspects of governance, however, allows little to be studied in depth, and anyway that is not the objective of this … research project. This paper therefore begins by making clear the nature of governance generally and then how and why this …

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … framework and a set of hypotheses, and then test them econometrically. The findings suggest that good governance and …