Government Matters III : Governance Indicators for 1996-2002
The authors present estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of gove...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/08/2480796/government-matters-iii-governance-indicators-1996-2002 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18134 |
| Summary: | The authors present estimates of six
dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and
territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and
2002. These indicators are based on several hundred
individual variables 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 components
model to construct six aggregate governance indicators in
each of the four periods. They present the point estimates
of the dimensions of governance as well as the margins of
errors for each country for the four periods. The governance
indicators reported here are an update and expansion of
previous research work on indicators initiated in 1998
(Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobat 1999a,b and 2002). The
authors also address various methodological issues,
including the interpretation and use of the data given the
estimated margins of errors. |
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