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 …

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … framework and a set of hypotheses, and then test them econometrically. The findings suggest that good governance and …

comparability, we also utilize cross-country governance indicators. …

This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 … countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political … Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of …

This paper summarizes the methodology of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project, and related analytical … issues. The WGI cover over 200 countries and territories, measuring six dimensions of governance starting in 1996: Voice and … Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and …

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 … Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of …

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 … stability and absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. This …

The Worldwide Governance Indicators, reporting estimates of six dimensions of governance for over 200 countries between …