Governance Matters III : Governance Indicators for 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002

By Daniel A. Kaufmann, Aart C. Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi. 2004

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This article presents estimates of six dimensions of governance for 199 countries and territories for 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002 developed in the context of an ongoing project to measure governance across countries. Section one describes the data used in developing this round of the governance indicators, which include several new sources. Data sources used in the earlier studies were updated forward to 2002 and backward to 1996, and previously estimated indicators for 1998 and 2000were revised to reflect the new data. The aggregation procedure, described in section two, provides not only estimates of governance for each country but also measures of the precision or reliability of these estimates. Although the new data have improved the precision of the governance indicators, the margins of error remain large relative to the units in which governance is measured, so that comparisons across countries and especially over time should be made with caution.

Subfields: Development, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? (2010, background): “The WGI authors have responded to some of these critiques, defending the relevance and accuracy of perceptions indicators (Kaufmann et al, 2004a , 2006 ).”
Terrorism and the world economy (2005, methodology): “To control for corruption and other forms of mis-governance, we employ a data set compiled by Kaufmann et al. (2004) that provides indicators on the efficacy of six dimensions of governance.”
What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions (2008, neutral): “(Kaufmann, Kraay, and Mastruzzi 2004, 3) The problem is that such a definition is just about as broad as any definition of “politics.””
Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration (2016, neutral): “Restricting the analysis to firms with more than 20 employees also enables us to correct for possible differences in the collection of data on small firms across countries (see Klapper, Laeven, and Rajan, 2006).”
How Corruption Influences Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Data Study (2006, methodology): “Similar to the CPI index, the WBC index summarizes the information of different data sources (such as the EUI or the WBES) and is therefore also suitable in our context (see Kaufmann et al. 1999; Kaufmann et al. 2004).”