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Governance Matters 2009: Learning From Over a Decade of the Worldwide Governance Indicators

Brookings: Governance Matters 2009: Learning From Over a Decade of the Worldwide Governance Indicators, Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi, June 29, 2009.

  • “The WGI organize and synthesize data, reflecting on the reports and views of tens of thousands of stakeholders worldwide, including respondents to household and firm surveys and experts from nongovernmental organizations, public sector agencies, and providers of commercial business information. The new WGI is based on 35 different data sources from 33 organizations around the world, aggregating the data from hundreds of disaggregated questions, to cover 212 countries around the world.”
  • The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project: “The six aggregate indicators and the underlying data sources can be viewed interactively on the Governance Indicators webpage of this site. To download the full dataset for all countries and indicators in Excel format, click here. Documentation of the latest update of the WGI can be found in Governance Matters VIII: Governance Indicators for 1996–2008. Further documentation and research using the WGI is available on the Resources page of this website or at www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance.”

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