Latest Resources
Resource Governance Index 2013
Global Index, Land Governance, Civil SocietyThe Resource Governance Index (RGI) measures the quality of governance in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries. From highly ranked countries like Norway, the United Kingdom and Brazil to low ranking countries like Qatar, Turkmenistan and Myanmar,the Index identifies critical achievements and challenges in natural resource governance. The RGI scores and ranks the countries,...
Measuring Governance
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe use of governance indicators, as applied to developing countries, has grown spectacularly in recent years. Following the maxim that you cannot manage what you cannot measure, international investors and official development aid agencies, together with academics and the media, have turned widely to using quantitative governance indicators for both analytical and decision-making purposes –...
Which Countries Pass the FY2011 Corruption Indicator? A Preview into Round 8 of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Country Selection
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Corruption, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Policy Document, DonorIn this MCA Monitor analysis, Casey Dunning and Sarah Jane Staats summarize which countries pass the latest control of corruption indicator, offering a first look at which countries might be selected as eligible for MCC assistance in FY2011. In the MCC selection process, countries must pass the control of corruption indicator in order to qualify for MCC money, making it the...
Mashup indices of Development
Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Policy Document, Inter-Governmental OrganizationCountries are increasingly being ranked by some new "mashup index of development," defined as a composite index for which existing theory and practice provides little or no guidance to its design. Thus the index has an unusually large number of moving parts, which the producer is essentially free to set. The parsimony of these indices is often appealing -- collapsing multiple...