Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators : Development Centre Studies.

Rapidly rising attention to the quality of governance in developing countries is driving explosive growth in the use of governance "indicators" by international investors, donors of official development assistance, development analysts and academics. . This study helps both users and producers of governance indicators to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the best and most widely used indicators, helps them find their way through the jungle of hundreds of existing governance indicator datasets, and shows how governance indicators tend to be widely misused both in international comparis.  Read more...