Daniel Kaufmann

Daniel Kaufmann is the Director of Global Programs at the World Bank Institute (WBI) where he oversees the governance and knowledge agenda. Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser on governance and development, with his colleagues he has pioneered new empirical approaches and survey methodologies resulting in action programs and supports countries on good governance and anti-corruption programs and capacity building. He previously held positions at the World Bank heading Capacity Building for Latin America; managed a team on Finance, Regulation and Governance, and was as a Lead economist in economies in transition in the research department. He was also an author of the World Development Report on the Challenges of Development. In the early nineties he was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and subsequently he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, trade and exchange rate, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labour economics has been published in leading journals. A Chilean national, he received his MA and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University, and a Bachelors degree in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Details on his publications and access to the databank are at: http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/kaufmann

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Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006

08/09/2008 5:45 pm

ABSTRACT « This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This latest set of aggregate indicators, are based on hundreds of specific and disaggregated individual variables measuring various dimensions of governance, taken from 33 data sources provided by 30 different organizations. The data reflect the views on governance of public sector, private sector and NGO experts, as well as thousands of citizen and firm survey respondents worldwide. We also explicitly report the margins of error accompanying each country estimate. These reflect the inherent difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data. We find that even after taking margins of error into account, the WGI permit meaningful cross-country comparisons as well as monitoring progress over time. In less than a decade, a substantial number of countries exhibit statistically significant improvements in at least one dimension of governance, while other countries exhibit deterioration in some dimensions. »
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Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
Daniel KAUFMANN
World Bank Institute. World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
July 2007

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