Methodology

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Critiquing and contextualising the corruption concept: ( M. Gephart (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2009); In the recent past, international organisations, governments,non-governmental organisations and academics have been paying increasing attention to corruption. There was initially consensus that corrup...
Analysing and addressing governance in sector operations: ( N. Boesen;European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) / European Commission Humanitarian Office , 2008); ...
On measuring governance: framing issues for debate: ( D. Kaufmann (ed);A. Kraay (ed) / World Bank , 2007); ...
Assessing governance quality using citizens’ evaluations: ( M. Ivanyna (ed);A. Shah (ed) / World Bank , 2009); For many years, there has been a proliferation of composite worldwide governance indicators designed to measure various aspects of governance quality for use by the development ai...
Voice of well-informed persons in governance assessment: ( J. Court;G. Hyden;K. Mease / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2002); This paper focuses on the methods used for collecting data in 22 countries for the World Governance Survey (WGS)....
Assessing corruption in transition countries: ( S. Knack / World Bank , 2006); This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) based on data from several sources that are both widely used and c...
Handbook on democracy assessment: ( D. Beetham;S. Bracking;I. Kearton / International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA , 2001); The International IDEA Handbook on Democracy Assessment is a guide to assessing the quality of democracy and human rights in any country around the world. ...
Human rights as an aid condition: An assessment: ( K. Desormeau / Carr Center for Human Rights Policy , 2005); Donors have long used human rights arguments to justify the giving or withholding of development assistance. Until the late 1990s, however, donor governments relied mainly on subjective judgments. ...
Ranking peaceful countries: ( Vision of Humanity , 2008); The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2008 ranks nations based on their relative states of peace. Covering 140 countries, the GPI brings a snapshot of relative peacefulness among nations while continuing to co...
World economic freedom advances steadily: ( K.R. Holmes;E.J. Feulner;M.A. O’Grady (ed) / The Heritage Foundation , 2008); This is the 14th edition of The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom. The objective of the Index is to catalogue economies in a quantitative and rigorous manner. Yet the I...