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Mapping Political Context: Governance Matters/Country Diagnostics

Manual/Toolkit, January 2009

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|The Governance Matters framework andCountry Diagnostics have been developed by the World Bank Institute (WBI). Governance |
|Matters is a project that aggregates existing measures of governance to produce a dataset that enablescross-country |
|comparisons. Country Diagnostics represent a separate component of the World Bank Institute's approach to understanding and |
|improving governance. It is a set of tools -surveys - that can be used to throw light on the specific governance challenges |
|faced by individual countries. Both approaches are based on the view that better governance leads to more development(and |
|vice-versa), that governance ought to be improved, and that measuring governance is a useful first step in identifying |
|strategies for its enhancement.|
|How do Governance Matters and Country Diagnostics work? ||Governance Matters |
|Governance matters measures governance using cross-countryperceptions data. The approach covers six dimensions of governance,|
|209 countries or territories, and runs from 1996-2004. The measures of governance are made by aggregating existing measures of||governance produced by a wide range of different organisations. In the latest version of the project, 37 separate data sources|
|are used, constructed by 31 different organisations. The philosophy of...