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 …

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

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 …

traditional anticorruption measures such as the increase in corruption costs or the organization of public education campaigns … would not permanently reduce corruption levels if poverty remains diffused. Using an overlapping generation model based on a … mechanism of cultural transmission, we study the evolution both of social attidudes towards bureaucratic corruption and the …

and governance, in controlling corruption, and in improving institutional quality -- although there is clearly variance … within a country, in turn affecting governance and corruption, has often been under-emphasized in program design. These argue … worldwide governance, and present recent empirical evidence. Focusing on defining and unbundling key governance components, such …

in governance. Its significance has broadened geographically as well as across different sectors. It has been observed … existing literature on transparency in finance and governance, indicates remaining knowledge gaps, and offers some hypothesis … development is gradual, relatively simple regulations such as limits on credit expansion, may be best tailored to developing …

unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics … and performance of firms, we find that: i) corruption reduces FDI inflows and attracts lower quality investment in terms … of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …

corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and … Performance Survey (BEEPS) across 20 transition economies, providing an assessment of governance and corruption from the … survey design permits an in-depth empirical analysis of governance and corruption, unbundling governance into its component …

the fact that increases in import openness do indeed cause reductions in corruption, a crucial aspect of governance. The … corruption is close to one third of that exercised by the level of development. Some cautious policy conclusions are derived. …Globalisation, governance and economic performance affect each other in very complex mutual relationships. In this …