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 …

improve governance. This note explains how empirical surveys can inform and transform the policy dialogue, so that a workable …

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 …

Progress in measuring governance is assessed using a simple framework that distinguishes between indicators that … governance indicators. Some simple principles are identified to guide the use and refinement of existing governance indicators … and the development of future indicators. These include transparently disclosing and accounting for the margins of error …

Thomas (2009) dismisses the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) as an 'elaborate and unsupported hypothesis' because …

This article presents estimates of six dimensions of governance for 199 countries and territories for 1996, 1998, 2000 …, and 2002 developed in the context of an ongoing project to measure governance across countries. Section one describes the … data used in developing this round of the governance indicators, which include several new sources. Data sources used in …