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  Second OECD World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy": measuring and fostering the progress of societies

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007

  This document presents proceedings of the OCED’s second World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies.’  The proceedings, in which leaders from 130 countries took part, emphasise the key role of access to information in judging the progress of societies.
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  Assessing governance: methodological challenges

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper focuses on the methods used for collecting data in 22 countries for the World Governance Survey (WGS).
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  Better figures for a better life: statistics and their contribution to development: a reader

  Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century, 2006

  This reader gives an overview of the recent debate amongst experts about statistics and their possible contribution for development, with special regard to Africa.
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  Challenge of making governance assessments nationally owned

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007

  This paper focuses on the challenges for making governance assessments nationally owned, which is a requirement under the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness. The author says that making governance assessments nationally-owned does not necessarily imply that government controls them or that they become unmanageable instruments trying to cater for every stakeholder group.
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  What human rights indicators should measure?

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2005

  One of the most persistent obstacles facing human rights measurement is the widespread reluctance to use quantitative data to assess civil and political rights. There is a common belief in the human rights community that while economic and social rights are well suited to quantitative evaluation, civil and political rights are not.
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  Indicators for a state of the judiciary report: a standardized tool for monitoring and reporting on the implementation of key judicial reforms

  International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 2003

  This document presents the International Foundation for Election Systems Judicial Integrity Principles (JIS) - a standardized tool for monitoring and reporting on the implementation of key judicial reforms.
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  Evaluating regulatory impact analyses: resources for the future

  Resources for the Future, 2004

  The criteria for assessing the success or failure of regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) are not well established in the literature. One widely accepted basis for evaluation is the academic- style quality when the RIAs are treated as stand-alone documents. Another important basis for evaluation is the accuracy of the implicit predictions the RIAs make about regulatory outcomes.
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  Local corruption diagnostics and measurement tools in Africa

  Transparency International, 2004

  This paper presents the results of a mapping exercise which assessed how national and local tools could provide a counterweight to international corruption surveys (risk assessments, perception indices and others, whose aim is often to rank countries against one another).
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  Problems with UNDP governance indicators

  2002

  This short note highlights three kinds of problems associated with the governance indicators employed by the UNDP's human development report 2002.
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  Diagnostic framework for revenue administration

  World Bank, 2000

  This paper provides a comprehensive diagnostic framework for revenue administration (RA) that takes into account both the traditional areas of focus as well as areas that are under-emphasized.

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