relationship from better governance to better development outcomes. They base their analysis on a new database containing more than … 300 governance indicators compiled from a variety of sources. They provide a detailed description of each of these …,"Aggregating Governance Indicators,"Policy Research Working Paper 2195), they then construct six aggregate indicators corresponding to six …

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 data …

In recent years the growing interest of academics and policymakers in governance has been reflected in the … proliferation of cross-country indices measuring various aspects of governance. The authors explain how a simple variant of an … unobserved components model can be used to combine the information from these different sources into aggregate governance …

It is well known that there is a strong positive correlation between per capita incomes and the quality of governance … positive causal effect running from better governance to higher per capita incomes, and, perhaps surprisingly at first, (2) a … weak and even negative causal effect running in the opposite direction from per capita incomes to governance. The first …

apply the framework to plant-level panel data from Colombia, Mexico, and Morocco. Their results point to several basic …

The authors present estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time … 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 components model to …

This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time … of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources constructed by 18 different organizations. We assign these individual … measures of governance to categories capturing key dimensions of governance, and use an unobserved components model to …