Governance Matters VI : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2006
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 latest set of
aggregate indicators are based on hundreds of specific and
disaggregated individual variables measuring various
dimensions of governance taken from 33 data sources provided
by 30 different organizations. The data reflect the views on
governance of public sector, private sector, and
nongovernmental organization experts, as well as thousands
of citizen and firm survey respondents worldwide. The paper
also explicitly reports the margins of error accompanying
each country estimate. These reflect the inherent
difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data.
It finds that even after taking margins of error into
account, the WGI permit meaningful cross-country
comparisons, as well as monitoring progress over time. In
less than a decade, a substantial number of countries
exhibit statistically significant improvements in at least
one dimension of governance, while other countries exhibit
deterioration in some dimensions. The decade-long aggregate
indicators, together with the disaggregated individual
indicators, are available in a newly-redesigned website at www.govindicators.org.
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Kaufmann, Daniel,
Kraay, Aart,
Mastruzzi, Massimo |
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2007-07
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| Subjects: | ACCOUNTABILITY,
ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS,
AGGREGATE GOVERNANCE,
AGGREGATE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS,
AGGREGATE INDICATOR,
AGGREGATE INDICATORS,
AGGREGATION METHODOLOGY,
AGGREGATION PROCEDURE,
BUDGET INFORMATION,
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT,
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT SURVEYS,
CALCULATION,
CITIZEN,
CITIZENS,
CIVIL SERVICE,
COMMERCIAL RISK RATING AGENCIES,
COMPARISONS ACROSS COUNTRIES,
COMPARISONS OF GOVERNANCE,
COMPOSITE INDICATORS,
CONFIDENCE INTERVALS,
CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT,
CONTROL OF CORRUPTION,
CORRELATIONS,
CORRUPTION,
CORRUPTION INDICATOR,
CORRUPTION INDICATORS,
COUNTRY COVERAGE,
COUNTRY ESTIMATE,
COUNTRY RATINGS,
CRIME,
DATA AVAILABILITY,
DEMOCRACY,
DIMENSION OF GOVERNANCE,
DIMENSIONS OF GOVERNANCE,
DOMESTIC FIRMS,
EXCHANGE OF IDEAS,
GOVERNANCE COMPONENT,
GOVERNANCE ESTIMATE,
GOVERNANCE ESTIMATES,
GOVERNANCE INDICATOR,
GOVERNANCE INDICATORS,
GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS,
IMPROVEMENTS IN GOVERNANCE,
INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY,
INTERNAL ASSESSMENTS,
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
INVESTMENT CLIMATE,
MEASUREMENT ERROR,
MEASURING GOVERNANCE,
METHODOLOGIES,
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS,
POLICY RESEARCH,
POLITICAL RISK,
POLITICAL STABILITY,
PRECISION,
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT,
PUBLIC POWER,
PUBLIC SECTOR,
PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTABILITY,
PUBLIC SERVICES,
PUBLIC-SECTOR,
QUALITY OF GOVERNANCE,
QUALITY OF PUBLIC,
REGULATORY QUALITY,
RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS,
RESOURCE ALLOCATION,
RULE OF LAW,
SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL,
STANDARD DEVIATION,
STANDARD ERRORS,
STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY,
TRANSPARENCY,
UNOBSERVED COMPONENTS MODEL,
UNOBSERVED GOVERNANCE,
WEIGHTING,
WORLDWIDE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/07/7871747/governance-matters-vi-aggregate-individual-governance-indicators-1996-2006
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7473
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