measures of governance. The associations are robust in a regression framework that exploits within-country variation over time … simplistic policy prescriptions, a sizable increase in the number of ministers is likely bad news for governance …

inherent difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data. We also briefly describe the evolution of the WGI since …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 …

discusses the factors which can facilitate the development of accountability and participatory governance mechanisms. Lessons … relations with low-income countries. The approach was centered around the development and implementation of Poverty Reduction … impact of participatory governance on policymaking, while emerging, is still a work in progress. The paper concludes with …

procurement indicators are not strongly associated with other "governance"-related outcomes in firm surveys that are unrelated to …

adoption of two different types of participatory governance institutions influences municipal tax collection in Brazil …

The authors examine the role of governance-measured by level of corruption and quality of bureaucracy-and ask how it … public spending can be explained by quality of governance. The authors find that public health spending lowers child and … infant mortality rates in countries with good governance. The results also indicate that as countries improve their …

Over the past decade, decentralization of fiscal and policy-making authority has become a cornerstone of development … organizations? recommendations for good governance. Yet the institutional design of multilayered government can create tensions as … actors are associated with worse local development outcomes. This evidence suggests that greater competition between elite …

governance, as measured by aid distribution outcomes. In villages where elected councils exist and manage distributions, aid … distribution jointly with customary leaders also increases embezzlement. Thus, while elected councils can improve governance …

results and advocating specific development policies. Section 1 provides some conceptual underpinnings for the view that an … effective state is essential for development. It asks whether development can be engineered, and state capacity increased, with … large aid flows. Section 2 sketches the historical evolution of what characterizes the World Bank: lending to developing …