The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues
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 Accounta...
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ABUSE ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS AGGREGATE GOVERNANCE AGGREGATE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS AGGREGATE INDICATOR AGGREGATE INDICATORS AGGREGATING GOVERNANCE INDICATORS AGGREGATION METHODOLOGY AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION AUTHORITY AVERAGE LEVEL BANKS BIASES BRIBE BRIBES BROADER ASPECT OF GOVERNANCE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CHOICE OF UNITS FOR GOVERNANCE CITIZENS CIVIL SERVICE COMMERCIAL RISK RATING AGENCIES COMPARISONS OF GOVERNANCE COMPOSITE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS COMPOSITE INDICATOR COMPOSITE INDICATORS COMPOSITE MEASURES CONFIDENCE INTERVALS CONSENSUS CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT CONTROL OF CORRUPTION CORRUPT CORRUPTION CORRUPTION INDICATOR CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX COUNTRY COVERAGE COUNTRY ESTIMATE COUNTRY RANKINGS COUNTRY RISK GUIDE CRIME DEFINITION OF GOVERNANCE DEMOCRACY DIMENSIONS OF GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURE DISTRIBUTION OF GOVERNANCE DISTURBANCE TERM DOMESTIC FIRMS ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EMPIRICAL METHODS EQUATIONS EXCHANGE OF IDEAS FINANCIAL SUPPORT GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE COMPONENT GOVERNANCE DATA GOVERNANCE DIMENSION GOVERNANCE ESTIMATE GOVERNANCE ESTIMATES GOVERNANCE INDICATOR GOVERNANCE ISSUES GOVERNANCE OUTCOMES GOVERNANCE PERCEPTIONS GOVERNANCE PERFORMANCE GOVERNANCE RATING GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS HUMAN RIGHTS INCOME INCOME LEVELS INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT CLIMATE JUSTICE LAWS MATRICES MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION MEASURE OF GOVERNANCE MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASURING GOVERNANCE MEDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE MISSING OBSERVATIONS MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NOTIONS OF GOVERNANCE OUTLIERS PERCEPTIONS INDEX POLICE POLICY ADVICE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMIC RISK POLITICAL RISK POLITICAL STABILITY PRECISION PRIVATE GAIN PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROBABILITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC OFFICIAL PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC POWER PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY OF PUBLIC REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REGULATORY QUALITY RESOURCE ALLOCATION RULE OF LAW SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY STANDARD DEVIATION STANDARD ERRORS STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS SUBJECTIVE DATA TERRORISM TIME SERIES TRANSITION ECONOMIES TRANSPARENCY UNOBSERVED COMPONENTS MODEL UNOBSERVED GOVERNANCE VALIDITY VIOLENCE VOTING WORLDWIDE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS |
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ABUSE ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS AGGREGATE GOVERNANCE AGGREGATE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS AGGREGATE INDICATOR AGGREGATE INDICATORS AGGREGATING GOVERNANCE INDICATORS AGGREGATION METHODOLOGY AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION AUTHORITY AVERAGE LEVEL BANKS BIASES BRIBE BRIBES BROADER ASPECT OF GOVERNANCE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CHOICE OF UNITS FOR GOVERNANCE CITIZENS CIVIL SERVICE COMMERCIAL RISK RATING AGENCIES COMPARISONS OF GOVERNANCE COMPOSITE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS COMPOSITE INDICATOR COMPOSITE INDICATORS COMPOSITE MEASURES CONFIDENCE INTERVALS CONSENSUS CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT CONTROL OF CORRUPTION CORRUPT CORRUPTION CORRUPTION INDICATOR CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX COUNTRY COVERAGE COUNTRY ESTIMATE COUNTRY RANKINGS COUNTRY RISK GUIDE CRIME DEFINITION OF GOVERNANCE DEMOCRACY DIMENSIONS OF GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURE DISTRIBUTION OF GOVERNANCE DISTURBANCE TERM DOMESTIC FIRMS ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EMPIRICAL METHODS EQUATIONS EXCHANGE OF IDEAS FINANCIAL SUPPORT GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE COMPONENT GOVERNANCE DATA GOVERNANCE DIMENSION GOVERNANCE ESTIMATE GOVERNANCE ESTIMATES GOVERNANCE INDICATOR GOVERNANCE ISSUES GOVERNANCE OUTCOMES GOVERNANCE PERCEPTIONS GOVERNANCE PERFORMANCE GOVERNANCE RATING GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS HUMAN RIGHTS INCOME INCOME LEVELS INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT CLIMATE JUSTICE LAWS MATRICES MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION MEASURE OF GOVERNANCE MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASURING GOVERNANCE MEDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE MISSING OBSERVATIONS MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NOTIONS OF GOVERNANCE OUTLIERS PERCEPTIONS INDEX POLICE POLICY ADVICE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMIC RISK POLITICAL RISK POLITICAL STABILITY PRECISION PRIVATE GAIN PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROBABILITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC OFFICIAL PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC POWER PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY OF PUBLIC REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REGULATORY QUALITY RESOURCE ALLOCATION RULE OF LAW SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY STANDARD DEVIATION STANDARD ERRORS STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS SUBJECTIVE DATA TERRORISM TIME SERIES TRANSITION ECONOMIES TRANSPARENCY UNOBSERVED COMPONENTS MODEL UNOBSERVED GOVERNANCE VALIDITY VIOLENCE VOTING WORLDWIDE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS Kaufmann, Daniel Kraay, Aart Mastruzzi, Massimo The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues |
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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 Control
of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several
hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a wide
variety of existing data sources. The data reflect the views
on governance of survey respondents and public, private, and
NGO sector experts worldwide. The WGI also explicitly report
margins of error accompanying each country estimate. These
reflect the inherent difficulties in measuring governance
using any kind of data. Even after taking these margins of
error into account, the WGI permit meaningful cross-country
and over-time comparisons. The aggregate indicators,
together with the disaggregated underlying source data, are
available at www.govindicators.org. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Kaufmann, Daniel Kraay, Aart Mastruzzi, Massimo |
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Kaufmann, Daniel Kraay, Aart Mastruzzi, Massimo |
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Kaufmann, Daniel |
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues |
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues |
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues |
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues |
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues |
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worldwide governance indicators : methodology and analytical issues |
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2012 |
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okr-10986-39132021-04-23T14:02:13Z The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues Kaufmann, Daniel Kraay, Aart Mastruzzi, Massimo ABUSE ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS AGGREGATE GOVERNANCE AGGREGATE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS AGGREGATE INDICATOR AGGREGATE INDICATORS AGGREGATING GOVERNANCE INDICATORS AGGREGATION METHODOLOGY AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION AUTHORITY AVERAGE LEVEL BANKS BIASES BRIBE BRIBES BROADER ASPECT OF GOVERNANCE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CHOICE OF UNITS FOR GOVERNANCE CITIZENS CIVIL SERVICE COMMERCIAL RISK RATING AGENCIES COMPARISONS OF GOVERNANCE COMPOSITE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS COMPOSITE INDICATOR COMPOSITE INDICATORS COMPOSITE MEASURES CONFIDENCE INTERVALS CONSENSUS CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT CONTROL OF CORRUPTION CORRUPT CORRUPTION CORRUPTION INDICATOR CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX COUNTRY COVERAGE COUNTRY ESTIMATE COUNTRY RANKINGS COUNTRY RISK GUIDE CRIME DEFINITION OF GOVERNANCE DEMOCRACY DIMENSIONS OF GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURE DISTRIBUTION OF GOVERNANCE DISTURBANCE TERM DOMESTIC FIRMS ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EMPIRICAL METHODS EQUATIONS EXCHANGE OF IDEAS FINANCIAL SUPPORT GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE COMPONENT GOVERNANCE DATA GOVERNANCE DIMENSION GOVERNANCE ESTIMATE GOVERNANCE ESTIMATES GOVERNANCE INDICATOR GOVERNANCE ISSUES GOVERNANCE OUTCOMES GOVERNANCE PERCEPTIONS GOVERNANCE PERFORMANCE GOVERNANCE RATING GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS HUMAN RIGHTS INCOME INCOME LEVELS INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT CLIMATE JUSTICE LAWS MATRICES MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION MEASURE OF GOVERNANCE MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASURING GOVERNANCE MEDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE MISSING OBSERVATIONS MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NOTIONS OF GOVERNANCE OUTLIERS PERCEPTIONS INDEX POLICE POLICY ADVICE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMIC RISK POLITICAL RISK POLITICAL STABILITY PRECISION PRIVATE GAIN PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROBABILITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC OFFICIAL PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC POWER PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY OF PUBLIC REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REGULATORY QUALITY RESOURCE ALLOCATION RULE OF LAW SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY STANDARD DEVIATION STANDARD ERRORS STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS SUBJECTIVE DATA TERRORISM TIME SERIES TRANSITION ECONOMIES TRANSPARENCY UNOBSERVED COMPONENTS MODEL UNOBSERVED GOVERNANCE VALIDITY VIOLENCE VOTING WORLDWIDE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS 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 Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a wide variety of existing data sources. The data reflect the views on governance of survey respondents and public, private, and NGO sector experts worldwide. The WGI also explicitly report margins of error accompanying each country estimate. These reflect the inherent difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data. Even after taking these margins of error into account, the WGI permit meaningful cross-country and over-time comparisons. The aggregate indicators, together with the disaggregated underlying source data, are available at www.govindicators.org. 2012-03-19T18:42:03Z 2012-03-19T18:42:03Z 2010-09-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20100924120727 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3913 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5430 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper The World Region The World Region |