The Worldwide Governance Indicators Project: Answering the CriticsWorld Bank, World Bank Institute, Global Programs, and Development Research Group, Growth and Macroeconomics Team, 2007 - Economic development - 33 pages The Worldwide Governance Indicators, reporting estimates of six dimensions of governance for over 200 countries between 1996 and 2005, have become widely used among policymakers and academics. They have also attracted some explicit written criticisms. In this short paper the authors synthesize 11 critiques offered by four recent papers. They then refute them as either conceptually incorrect or empirically unsubstantiated. |
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... different organizations , and so provide a synthesis of the views of a very large and diverse group of stakeholders regarding the quality of governance across countries . We report the aggregate governance indicators , the underlying ...
... different organizations , and so provide a synthesis of the views of a very large and diverse group of stakeholders regarding the quality of governance across countries . We report the aggregate governance indicators , the underlying ...
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... countries based on its own independent research , but a second rating agency simply reproduces the assessments of the first . Then in reality we would only have one data source , not two ... governance across countries . A first important 16.
... countries based on its own independent research , but a second rating agency simply reproduces the assessments of the first . Then in reality we would only have one data source , not two ... governance across countries . A first important 16.
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... governance . We do not think that , in the case of measuring governance across countries , the concept of discriminant validity is at all useful in assessing empirical measures . The reason is very simply that different and logically ...
... governance . We do not think that , in the case of measuring governance across countries , the concept of discriminant validity is at all useful in assessing empirical measures . The reason is very simply that different and logically ...
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