Defining and selecting indicators

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Governance assessments and domestic accountability: how can donors aid the process?: ( S. Meyer / Fride , 2009); This paper follows on from recently completed research that investigated the impact of donor harmonisation on domestic processes of democratisation. The aim of this research is to further info...
Monitoring democracy: consensus and challenges: ( G.L. Munck / School of International Relations, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California , 2006); The monitoring of democracy is both desirable and doable. Yet, as proposals to monitor democracy have gained prominence and as the political stakes of such exercises have become more evident, criti...
Impact evaluation: combining qualitative and quantitative methods: ( S. Garbarino;J. Holland / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre , 2009); This paper reviews the case for promoting and formalising qualitative and combined methods for impact evaluation as part of a broader strategy amongst donors and country partners for tackling the e...
Political and cultural bias in governance indicators: ( N. Girvan / , 2002); This short note highlights three kinds of problems associated with the governance indicators employed by the UNDP's human development report 2002....
Are the perception-based indicators of governance reliable?: ( M. Kurtz;A. Schrank / European School on New Institutional Economics , 2008); While political scientists have traditionally deployed objective indicators of “political organization and administrative capacity”, including tax ratios, tax structures, political partici...
How to evaluate the implementation of human rights?: ( M. Kirby / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 1998); This paper focuses on various issues related to developing indicators of the implementation of human rights. ...
Can corruption be measured?: ( D. Kaufmann;A. Kraay;M. Mastruzzi / World Bank , 2006); Progress in fighting corruption on all fronts requires measurement of corruption itself. This recognition has renewed interest in the World Bank, and among aid donors, aid recipients, investors, and c...
Improving the governance of basic services provision for women: ( UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2009); This Guide is intended as a generic and basic tool to map and analyse governance of basic service delivery through a gendered lens. It seeks to improve the measurements of basic services delivery in v...
New governance indicators needed to foster public sector reforms: ( World Bank , 2000); First generation indicators of the quality of governance, such as those provided by the International Country Risk Guide and Transparency International are of little value in guiding specific public s...
Pro-poor, gender-sensitive governance indicators: ( UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2005); This document presents the report of the UNDP-ICSSR Technical Workshop-2005 on Governance Indicators for Pro-Poor and Gender-Sensitive Policy Reform. The report is presented in the following four sect...