Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Measuring Governance Matters - a Webcast


Date: January 11, 2007

Governance has become a central topic in development, and many sets of indicators have been developed to measure the quality of governance and to rank countries accordingly. But how are these measurements made and the indicators applied? What issues arise in constructing and using governance indicators? In this round table, World Bank and external experts discussed data and methodologies used to develop governance indicators, the respective advantages and disadvantages of various indicators, issues related to the use of indicators in measuring the results of various development policy actions, and directions for future development.

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