Government Matters III : Governance Indicators for 1996-2002

By Daniel A. Kaufmann, Aart C. Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi. 2003

909 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f52688809be6fc15174002a55109a601e3448edd

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Development

In Political Science and International Relations

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth (2006, methodology): “All of our measures of institutional quality are positively associated with growth – as was shown by Kaufmann et al. (2003) for their measures of institutions – and virtually all the institutional measures are related to both of our measures of cohesion.7 Here, we have used three-stage least…”
Corruption, Democracy, Economic Freedom, and State Strength (2005, methodology): “…for this is that it is hard to agree on what objective data would look like for some of these variables and, even if agreement could be reached on that issue, objective data would be all but impossible to obtain for the large sample of countries included in this study (Kaufmann et al., 2003).”
Trade Openness and Growth: Who Benefits? (2004, neutral): “…empirical analyses has shifted to differences in current levels of real income/output per capita—as opposed to differences in rates of growth—starting with Hall and Jones (1999) and Frankel and Romer (1999), followed by Acemoglu et al. (2001), Kaufmann et al. (1999, 2003), and Rodrik et al. (2002).”
Effects of Tax Morale on Tax Compliance: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2005, background): “…3 2 1999 Informal Market 4 4 1999 POLITY IVf Institutionalized Democracy 9 9 1999 Regime Durability 33 5 1999 ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATIONg 0.410 0.752 1997-2001 Notes: a Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (10= highly clean, 1= highly corrupt). b Source Kaufmann et al. (2003).”
Diffusion without convergence: how political context shapes the adoption of regulatory impact assessment (2005, background): “This conclusion has been attacked by those who claim that ‘good regulatory governance matters’ in terms of productivity, better regulatory environment, and ultimately growth (Kaufmann et al. 2003).”
Transforming disadvantages into advantages: developing-country MNEs in the least developed countries (2008, background): “It represents the need to make additional, irregular payments to get things done, or state capture by elites (Kaufmann et al., 2003).”
Corruption, Governance and FDI Location in China: A Province-Level Analysis (2009, background): “An index of good governance based on these characteristics is developed by Kaufmann et al. (1999) and recently updated in Kaufmann et al. (2003).”
Targeting Aid to the Needy and Deserving: Nothing But Promises? (2004, neutral): “In this section, we use the indicator values presented for 2000 in Kaufmann et al. (2003), reflecting the stage of institutional development across developing countries at that time.”