While the quantity of sustainability governance initiatives and systems has increased
dramatically, crises persist over whether specific governance systems can be trusted as …

There is increasing realization that state capacity is a fundamental ingredient for effective
governance, and is a crucial element of long‐run economic development. This paper offers …

Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more
frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be …

Strengthening service delivery is crucial to the achievement of the health-related Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), which include the delivery of interventions to reduce child …

This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)
research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of …

This paper examines the roles of trade, institutional quality and their interactions in
explaining carbon dioxide emissions in a panel sample of 40 S ub‐S ahara A frican …

This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)
research project covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of …

Links between economic growth and inequality are of growing interest for researchers and
policy makers. Previous studies of this relationship have focused mainly on inequalities in …

This article empirically explores the impact of governance indicators (corruption, government
effectiveness, and political stability) along with some other macroeconomic variables …

This paper constructs an efficiency-adjusted public capital stock series and re-examines the
public capital and growth relationship. The paper also examines the effects of four specific …