As a symptom of fundamental institutional weaknesses, corruption needs to be viewed within a broader governance framework. It thrives where the state is unable to reign over its bureaucracy, to prote..

This article reports on new evidence that links how government decisions are made and how well they perform. This is obviously a broad set of questions, which we narrow to the relationship between ov..

Economists generally argue that the level and structure of a country's own trade barriers, as well as the "quality" of its governance policies, such as regulations on foreign investment or bureaucrat..

This article uses a cross-national data set on the performance of government investment projects financed by the World Bank to expatriate the link between government efficacy and governance. It demons..

With the right method, aggregate indicators can provide useful estimates of basic governance concepts as well as measures of the imprecision of these aggregate estimates and their components.......