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Aggregating Governance
Indicators
Daniel Kaufmann
Aart Kraay
Pablo Zoido-Lobatn
P O L I C Y R E S E A R C H W O R K I N G P A P E R 2195
Summary findings
In recent years the growing interest of academics and
policymakers in governance has been reflected in the
proliferation of cross-country indices measuring
various aspects of governance.
Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobatn explain how a
simple variant of an unobserved components model
can be used to combine the information from these
different sources into aggregate governance indicators.
The main advantage of this method is that it allows
quantification of the precision of both individual
sources of governance data and country-specific
aggregate governance indicators.
Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobatn illustrate the
methodology by constructing aggregate indicators of
bureaucratic quality, rule of law, and graft for a sample
of 160 countries. Although these aggregate governance
indicators are more informative about the level of
This papera joint product of Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Research Group; and Governance, Regulation,
and Finance, World Bank Instituteis part of a larger effort in the Bank to study the causes and consequences of governance
for development. Copies of this paper are available free from the World Bank, 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433.
Please contact Diane Bouvet, Room J3-273, telephone 202-473-5818, fax 202-334-8350, email dbouvet@worldbank.org. This
paper is also available on the Web at http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/working_papers.htm. The authors may be
contacted at dkaufmann@worldbank.org, akraay@worldbank.org, or pzoidolobaton@worldbank.org. October 1999. (39 pages)
The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development
issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the
names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely
those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the view of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent.
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