countries need to improve their governance and build the capacity of the public sector to improve living standards, the Bank …'s performance in assisting governments in building state capacity and achieving better governance outcomes has been disappointing …

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 …

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 … various dimensions of governance, taken from 35 data sources provided by 32 different organizations. The data reflect the …

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 … governance) can have significantly negative impact on returns to infrastructure investment. This conclusion holds whether … infrastructure is in private or public hands. This paper looks at what has been learned about the role of governance in …

Scholars, policymakers, aid donors, and aid recipients acknowledge the importance of good governance for development …. This understanding has spurred an intense interest in more refined, nuanced, and policy-relevant indicators of governance …. In this paper we review progress to date in the area of measuring governance, using a simple framework of analysis …

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 …