Jun 18, 2003 kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi present estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods. Matt andrews has pointed out that reforms in developing countries are. The worldwide governance indicators wgi are a research dataset summarizing the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. The roles of cultural and institutional distance in. Based on surveys, chan and kumaraswamy 33 mentioned impractical design, labor shortages, poor performance, unforeseen conditions, and poor communication. Monitoring and measuring human rights a brief survey.
Financial support from the knowledge for change program of the world bank is gratefully. In some instances, block pages web sites that explicitly con. Daniel kaufmann at natural resource governance institute nrgi. Journal of international business studies, 33 2, 203 221. Kaufmann, kraay and mastruzzi lobbying disclosure act database. Measuring governance using crosscountry perceptions data, mpra paper 8219, university. Countries were evaluated using the worldwide governance indicators from a 2010 world bank policy research working paper from daniel kaufmann, aart kraay and massimo mastruzzi, the worldwide. The governance indicators measure six dimensions of.
This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods. This paper reports on the latest update of the worldwide governance indicators wgi research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance. Does financial liberalization affect bank risktaking in. Microsoft powerpoint 8 dpi403 measuring good governance kaufmann kraay. Apr 24, 2008 we analyze the advantages and disadvantages of developingcountry multinational enterprises mnes in comparison with developedcountry mnes. Inputoutput tables gtap database world inputoutput database wiod bureau of economic analysis. Our findings suggest that the legalisation of some aspects of sex work might help reduce hiv prevalence in this highrisk group, particularly in countries where the judiciary is effective and fair. Voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violenceterrorism, governmenteffectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control. Kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi, massimo have demonstrated statistical relationship between governance and outcome. Website of professor in song kim, department of political science, mit.
Global opportunities and challenges for transboundary. Response to what do the worldwide governance indicators measure. Mar 23, 2020 gadm database of global administrative areas version 2. Often the data from the other databases was very similar and sometimes had identical wording. Lessons from an empirical perspective on governance in. Crossborder mergers and acquisitions by emerging market. Databank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics where you can create your own queries, generate. The study was dependent on the sensitivity and the accuracy of the five main databases used in documenting violent deaths of media workers. Daniel kaufmann, aart kraay and massimo mastruzzi the world bank institute for details see. Jan 22, 2018 according to the recommendations of the world health organization commission on social determinants of health csdh for intersectoral action on health, the wellbeing of and equity in health within a population are achieved via a complex fusion of policies and actions.
Effect of governance indicators on underfive mortality in oecd nations. Automating good governance through government resource. The kaufmann kraay mastruzzi kkm indicator for the rule of law places mauritania above the ssa average, but below almost all of its immediate neighbors figure 4. We also performed tests using a nonevents indicator, the worldwide governance indicators wgi political stability and absence of violence. Technical appendix contents aid volumes country programmable assistance 2 aid quality quality of official development assistance 4. An application of a multicriteria model to assess the. Kaufmann, daniel, aart kraay, and massimo mastruzzi. This paper describes an ongoing project to measure governance using cross country perceptions data. Mar 18, 2019 as a measure of the level of economic development, we use the natural logarithm of the gross domestic product gdp per capita at constant 2005 us dollars, obtained from the world development indicators database world bank, 2015. Failure variables were also collected from international organizations making independent estimates of state capacity and goods provision, thereby avoiding the politicization of data or other ambiguities deriving from the gap between law and practice or promised and realized goods provision kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi 2009, 5. Kaufmann and kraay propose an empirical strategy that allows separation of this correlation into 1 a strong positive causal effect running from better governance to higher per capita incomes, and, perhaps surprisingly at first, 2 a weak and even negative causal effect running in the opposite direction from per capita incomes to governance. They present the point estimates of the dimensions of governance as well as the margins of errors for each country for the four periods.
Voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violenceterrorism, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. Measuring governance using crosscountry perceptions data. Gadm database of global administrative areas version 2. The wgi, one of the first qog data sources to publish free qog data for a worldwide sample starting back in 1996, is one of the most widely employed empirical sources of qog. Taking advantage of a novel database reforms, we also show that soe governance reforms can generate significant performance gains. Methodology and analytical issues daniel kaufmann, brookings institution aart kraay and massimo mastruzzi, world bank september, 2010 access the wgi data at.
At harvard kennedy school, the wellbeing of our community is our top priority, so the campus is currently closed. Corruption is not the deterministic driver of all development ills but very. Dummy poor rule of law is equal to 1 0 if the rule of law index for a specific year is below above the median of the sample. When using this dataset please cite above working paper. A summary of data, methodology and analytical issues, by d. Explaining software piracy using a new set of indicators. Crossborder mergers and acquisitions by emerging market firms. However, this definition has been criticized for being overly broad by covering the entire field of. Mastruzzi, june 2007 16 subsaharan africa resourcerich vs.
On first sight, the problem of corruption in mauritania does not seem as acute as in other subsaharan african ssa countries. Daniel kaufmann, aart kraay and massimo mastruzzi additional contact information massimo mastruzzi. This paper reports on the 2009 update of the worldwide governance indicators wgi research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008. Databank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics where you can create your own queries, generate tables, charts and maps and easily save, embed and share them. This paper summarizes the methodology of the worldwide governance indicators wgi project, and related analytical issues. And finally, we note, as discussed in more detail in kaufmann and kraay 2008.
Measuring governance using crosscountry perceptions data daniel kaufmann, aart kraay, and massimo mastruzzi the world bank august 2005 abstract. Mastruzzi, governance matters vi governance indicators for 1996 2006, world bank policy research working paper no. Overall the cpj database provided more information on each of the variables collected than the other four databases. Effect of governance indicators on underfive mortality in. An evidencebased approach at the global and national level. The percentage of cabinet positions held by leftwing parties is shown in supplementary figure s 1. Kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi 2007 corroborate this finding in a larger sample. The first is the institutional profiles database, an expert assessment of. Kaufmann, daniel, kraay, aart and mastruzzi, massimo, the worldwide governance indicators.
May 23, 20 through an analysis of the world governance indicators, kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi, massimo have demonstrated statistical relationship between governanceand outcome. No 5430, policy research working paper series from the world bank. European association of development research and training institutes eadi, vol. The governance indicators reported here are an update and expansion of previous research work on indicators initiated in 1998 kaufmann, kraay, and zoidolobat 1999a,b and 2002. Daniel kaufmann, natural resource governance institute nrgi and brookings institution. Kaufmann, kraay and mastruzzi, governance matters viii. Dummy poor rule of law is equal to 1 0 if the rule of law index for a specific year. Read about our executive education programs or check other information about the coronavirus. Kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi present estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods. Mastruzzi, june 2007 oil rich countries included gabon, congo, nigeria, chad, sudan, angola and equatorial guinea. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources constructed by 18 different. Developingcountry mnes tend to be less competitive than their developedcountry counterparts, partly because they suffer the disadvantage of operating in home countries with underdeveloped institutions. A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of 1 countries.
Wgis index intends to capture the likelihood the government will be destabilized or overthrown by unconstitutional or violent means kaufmann, kraay and mastruzzi 2012. The governance reality the set of available, yet imperfect, governance indicators are the reality for evidencebased decisions, particularly in developing countries. Financial support from the knowledge for change program of the world bank is gratefully acknowledged. Dec 20, 2017 statistical modelling of global survey datasets of waterbirds as an indicator taxon for biodiversity changes in wetland ecosystems demonstrates that effective governance is the strongest predictor. This paper reports on the latest update of the worldwide governance indicators wgi research project covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources constructed by 18 different organizations. This paper reports on the latest update of the worldwide governance indicators wgi research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2007. Kaufmann, kraay and zoidolobaton kkz 1999a,b and 2002 and kaufmann and kraay 2002. Governance indicators for 19962002 daniel kaufmann aart kraay massimo mastruzzi the world bank first draft.
Daniel kaufmann, aart kraay, and massimo mastruzzi. Institutional, cultural and transaction cost influences on entry mode choice and performance. Lobaton in 1999 and most recently updated in 2008 by kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi. Kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi present estimates of six aggregate. A panel data study was conducted to investigate the effect of governance indicators on child mortality rate in 27 oecd countries from 1996 to 2012 using the generalized method of moments gmm model and eviews.
Tobacco control policy development in the european union. Treisman 2007 finds that the time necessary to register a business is the most significant in explaining corruption among an array of variables proxying for regulatory burdens. The wgi cover over 200 countries and territories, measuring six dimensions of governance starting in 1996. This paper describes an ongoing project to measure governance using crosscountry perceptions data. Cingranelli richards human rights database hum european bank for. Microsoft powerpoint 10 stm103 measuring good governance kaufmann kraay. Insert figure 1 here the text on the whole database of documents was coded if correspondent to the identified categories. Which of the evaluative criteria selected by kaufmann kray would you. Pisanotheoretical foundations of crossborder mergers and acquisitions. Institutional profiles database iii presentation of the institutional profiles database 2009 ipd 2009. Response to what do the worldwide governance indicators. The governance realitythe set of available, yet imperfect, governance indicators are the reality for evidencebased decisions,particularly in developing countries. Governance indicators munich personal repec archive. Although the prevalence varied from 0 to 100%, there seems to have been a trend, with peaks around 1999 and 2007 and troughs around 1996, 2002 and 2010.
The measure of institutional distance is constructed using kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi s 2002 six dimensions of governance quality which will be explained later in section 3. The data, as well as a webbased graphical interface, are. Colors are assigned according to the following criteria. Although kaufmann, kraay, and mastruzzi 2011 defined six dimensions of governance, considering the portuguese local administration, the rule of law and the control of corruption can be treated as one dimension municipalities abide by the same rules and the judicial system operates at the national level. Significance of scope in project success sciencedirect. Successful conservation of global waterbird populations. Measuring accrualbased ipsas implementation and its. New tools and new tests in comparative political economy the database of political institutions, policy research working paper series 2283, the world bank. Detailed documentation of the wgi, interactive tools for exploring the data, and full access to the underlying source data available at the wgi are produced by daniel kaufmann natural resource governance institute and brookings institution and aart kraay world bank development research group. Oct 28, 2014 using crosscountry software piracy rates as a proxy for ipr violations from 1994 to 2010, our results indicate that per capita income, individualism, literacy, internet spread, the number of ipr laws and agreements in a country, and judicial independence significantly determine the level of a nations software piracy rates. Control of corruption, 2008 from the worldwide governance indicators wgi. The authors report on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 2 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance from 1996 until end2005. No 4654, policy research working paper series from the world bank abstract.
International handbook on the economics of corruption edited by susan roseackerman. Are international databases on corruption reliable. In this study, following the csdhs approach and considering settheoretic relations, we aimed to unravel this complexity. The higher the score received for an indicator, the higher the quality of the institutional environment for that indicator. Kaufmann, kraay, mastruzzi, 2015 the second part of the eqi, which takes into account the regional level of governance, was compiled by the european commission on the. The influence of international risk on entry mode strategy in the computer software industry. All degree program classes will be conducted online for the remainder of the semester.