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 …

Aggregate indexes of the quality of governance, covering large samples of countries, are widely used in research and in … empirically the dimensionality of the Worldwide Governance Indicators. The six indexes purportedly measure distinct concepts of … do not discriminate usefully among different aspects of governance. Rather, each of the indexes merely reflects …

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 …

Governance is central to development outcomes in infrastructure, not least because corruption (a symptom of failed … - primarily at the sector level - to improve governance and reduce the development impact of corruption. The discussion covers … governance) can have significantly negative impact on returns to infrastructure investment. This conclusion holds whether …

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 …

This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralized … local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is because localization helps to break the …

industrial and developing countries differently in some cases. The authors also find that governance plays an important role as …