explores the price and quantity components of the relationship between governance and service delivery using micro-level survey … data. The authors construct new measures of governance using data from users of public services from 13 government agencies …

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 …

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

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 …

Scholars, policymakers, aid donors, and aid recipients acknowledge the importance of good governance for development … principles to guide the refinement of existing governance indicators and the development of future indicators. We emphasize the …. This understanding has spurred an intense interest in more refined, nuanced, and policy-relevant indicators of governance …

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 …

The authors construct aggregate governance indicators for six dimensions of governance, covering 175 countries in 2000 …-01. They apply the methodology developed in Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobaton ("Aggregating Governance Indicators", Policy … Research Working Paper 2195, and "Governance Matters", Policy Research Working Paper 2196, October 1999) to newly available …