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WORKING WITH DATA

Practical Exercise on: South Africa, Ecuador and Sub-Saharan

Submitted by: Paola F. Suntaxi F.
Enrolment Student No: 20124007





Submitted to: Klara Claessens and Wim Marvoet

December 17th, 2012





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“WORKING WITH Data”


IDENTIFICATION

Name of student: Paola Fernanda Suntaxi Flores
Number of dataset: 22

PARTI: MACRO-LEVEL DATA (5)

1.1. Table with HDR, WGI and WDI-indicators for South Africa, Own Country and SSA (1.5)


Your own country: Ecuador


|Nr |
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|1 |
|1 |Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) |
|Internet site: |http://hdr.undp.org/|
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|WGI: Worldwide Governance Indicators |
|Internet site: |http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp|
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|WDI: World Development Indicators | |
|Internet site: |http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx |


1.2.Definitional explanations (0.5)


▪ Regulatory Quality vs. Government Effectiveness:
Regulatory quality captures perceptions of the ability of the government to formulate and implement sound policies and regulations that permit and promote private sector development. In other words, rules are essential for economic growth, social welfare and environmental protection. Thus, thisindicator gives a brief view of how a government performs in promoting the function of the markets and the public understands of the law. Monopoly control, tax system, and bank monitoring are taking into account in this indicator.
Government effectiveness captures perceptions of the quality of public services, the quality of the civil service and the degree of its independence from politicalpressures, the quality of policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of the government's commitment to such policies. This important indicator gives a hint of how well local institutions perform and whether those institutions are committed to providing quality services. Institutional effectiveness, capacity of political authorities to implement reforms, and satisfaction with publicgoods are some of the inputs that are considered by this indicator.

▪ Improved water source:
Improved water source (% of population with access) refers to the percentage of the population with reasonable access to an adequate amount of water from an improved source, such as a household connection, public standpipe, borehole, protected well or spring, and rainwater collection. Unimprovedsources include vendors, tanker trucks, and unprotected wells and springs. Reasonable access is defined as the availability of at least 20 liters a person a day from a source within one kilometer of the dwelling. This is a crucial indicator associated with hygiene and health. In fact, increasing safe water access allows for better hygiene practices; moreover, raising the quality of drinking...