relationship from better governance to better development outcomes. In a cross-section of more than 150 countries, Kaufmann, Kraay … development outcomes. They base their analysis on a new database containing more than 300 governance indicators compiled from a … law, and graft. As measured by these indicators, governance matters for development outcomes. This paper - a joint product …

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 … various dimensions of governance, taken from 33 data sources provided by 30 different organizations. The data reflect the …

http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/govdata2001.htm. This paper - a joint product of the Development Research Group and …Updated governance indicators report estimates of six dimensions of governance for 175 countries in 2000-01. They can … be compared with those constructed for 1997-98. Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobaton construct aggregate governance …

Kaufmann, Kraay, and Mastruzzi present estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories … measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources constructed by 18 different organizations. The authors … assign these individual measures of governance to categories capturing key dimensions of governance and use an unobserved …