The 2008 World Governance Indicators
Summary:With the ability to generate charts, tables and world maps of six key governance indicators across 212 countries, the recently released 'Governance Matters 2008' is one of the most comprehensive web tools available to development policy-makers.
BY BRANDON CURRIE
GV Content editor
Though some may criticize the World Bank for how it measures governance - with too much emphasis on economic indicators and not enough on human rights - it is difficult to dispute its contribution to our collective knowledge of development data.
Based on information aggregated over the past 11 years, the recently released edition of Governance Matters offers policy-makers and anyone interested in governance indicators an incredible breadth of information on nearly every country in the world, packaged in a simple interface that allows for national, regional and global comparisons.
It's interesting to note that, in our current e-Dialogue with Professor David Carment, he argues that the governance assessment tool he helped develop takes a more robust data set into account - notably event-based data and human rights indicators. It certainly presents an interesting contrast in how the international community can appraise governance.
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