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Poland: Developing Good Governance Indicators for Programmes Funded by the European Union
Europe and CIS, Framework, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis report proposes a practical, country-based framework for developing good governance indicators for programmes funded by the European Union.
Governance assessments for local stakeholders: What the World Governance Assessment offers
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankThis report introduces the basic features of the World Governance Assessment (WGA) and highlights main findings of the second round of WGA that was conducted in 10 countries in the global South during 2006. The report also presents an overview of the methodology and the special Study Management System, a capacity-building component that is also an important part of what WGA offers. The...
Guide | Les indicateurs de gouvernance des organismes publics en réponse aux enjeux du développement durable
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Public Administration, GovernmentCe guide vise à fournir une démarche de diagnostic de la stratégie de développement durable et de sa bonne gouvernance au sein des établissements publics et entreprises publiques. Ce diagnostic s'effectue dans un premier temps sur la base de l'identification d'un ensemble d'indicateurs de bonne gouvernance des Organisations en réponse aux enjeux du développement durable et dans un second temps...
Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Inter-Governmental OrganizationRapidly rising attention to the quality of governance in developing countries is driving explosive growth in the use of governance “indicators” by international investors, donors of official development assistance, development analysts and academics. This study helps both users and producers of governance indicators to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the best and most widely used...
Human Rights Indicators - Indicators to promote and monitor the implementation of human rights
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Human Rights, Other UN AgencyThe Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has published Human Rights Indicators: A Guide to Measurement and Implementation. The publication aims to assist in developing quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure progress in the implementation of international human rights norms and principles. The Guide describes the conceptual and methodological framework for human...
Improving Public Governance: Closing the Implementation Gap Between Law and Practice
Academic/Think Tank, Global IntegritySound laws are a key foundation of democratic governance and economic development in every country. Yet, formulating such laws is only half of the puzzle. The other, more challenging, half is ensuring that the legal framework is properly implemented. All too often the act of adopting a legal framework is regarded as an end in itself as it assumes that laws are administered and services...
Paying Bribes to Get Public Services: A Global Guide to Concepts and Survey Measures
Article / Working Paper, Academic/Think TankThis paper reviews concepts essential to understand the experience of mass bribery; compares alternative questions used by major multi-national surveys to measure that experience; and reports data from 248 surveys in 125 countries with 285,678 interviews. The major multi-national surveys included are the Global Corruption Barometer of Transparency International, the Life in Transition survey of...
Assessing Governance, Staff Guidance Note on the Governance Rating of the Bank’s Country Performance Assessment
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThe purpose of this note is to provide guidance to Bank staff on the sources of evidence available to inform the assessment of the governance rating and thereby reduce the scope for subjectivity of the annual CPA exercise. It is designed in particular for Country Economists responsible for the coordination of the CPA exercise, undertaken each year. It aims at enhancing the objectivity, quality,...
Social development – a multidimensional approach to social development analysis. Country level evidence for year 2011
Article / Working Paper, Academic/Think TankThe study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level differences – gaps (divides) among countries. For the analysis purposes, we apply: descriptive statistics...
Monitoring corruption: Evidence from a field Experiment in Indonesia
Article / Working PaperIn this article Ben Olken compares the efficiency of two much proposed methods to reduce corruption: increasing audits by government officials and increasing grassroots participation. The results strongly advocate for the first but find no effect of the latter. This article is one of the first carefully designed randomised experiments on the economics of corruption. It constructs a well defined...