Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance
Increasing awareness of the importance of governance has been accompanied by an increase in the number of commercial firms and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) producing broad indicators of the quality of governance and public institutions. Fir...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/12/891715/toward-more-operationally-relevant-indicators-governance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11407 |
| Summary: | Increasing awareness of the importance
of governance has been accompanied by an increase in the
number of commercial firms and nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs) producing broad indicators of the quality of
governance and public institutions. First generation
governance indicators, e.g., International Country Risk
Guide, Transparency International's Corruption
Perception Index, are useful to identify countries with
severe corruption and other governance-related problems.
However most of them have limited relevance for public
sector reform. There is a need for second generation
indicators which are expected to be more specific in
measuring performance and pay more attention to measuring
government processes and institutional arrangements - not
just performance. |
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