Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002

This article presents estimates of six
\n dimensions of governance for 199 countries and territories
\n for 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002 developed in the context of
\n an ongoing project to measure governance across countries.
\n Section one describes the data used in developing this round
\n of the governance indicators, which include several new
\n sources. Data sources used in the earlier studies were
\n updated forward to 2002 and backward to 1996, and previously
\n estimated indicators for 1998 and 2000were revised to
\n reflect the new data. The aggregation procedure, described
\n in section two, provides not only estimates of governance
\n for each country but…