The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions are Really Being Measured?

Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1927202

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“…Improving governance is also central to efforts of the international community to deal with underdevelopment and post-conflict situations; e.g., the World Bank (WB) and the IMF have made support conditional on improved governance. The US Millennium Challenge Account, launched by the Bush administration in 2003, introduced an aid allocation mechanism based on competitive assessment of governance performance in developing countries (Knoll & Zloczysti, 2012).…”

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Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries

Ward

Dorussen

2015

World Development

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) provide transparent and comparable country statistics for different dimensions of governance linked to (under)development. Yet, does the public availability of governance data actually enhance performance? If investors, donor agencies and citizens are made aware of relative governance performance, competition for inward investment, such as FDI and ODA, and domestic legitimacy become plausible mechanisms for diffusion of good governance. We test whether such mechanisms operate using the WGI for Africa, and find evidence for spatial diffusion of democracy, rule of law, and corruption control.There is no evidence for diffusion of regulatory quality and government effectiveness.

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Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries

Ward

Dorussen

2015

World Development

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“…An ineffective, inequitable and weakly performing land administration system leads to unofficial styles of service delivery, corruption, illiquidity of assets, limited land markets, tenure insecurity, inaccurate and unreliable records, informal settlements, unrealised investment potential in property, speculative land seizure and encroachment, idle and unproductive use of land, inequitable land distribution, social unrest and inadequate provisions of infrastructure (Zimbabwe Institute, 2012;Knoll and Zloczysti, 2011).…”

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2016

IJAPR

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Migration of the productive age group within the country coupled with regionalism in land allocation demands an adjustment to the existing land tenure structure to cater for temporary land requirements of the migrants. A cross-sectional survey to gather perspectives and factors influencing one's participation in land rental markets was conducted in order to evaluate the compliance of land governance with land rental requirements of temporary migrants. Survey responses were benchmarked against best practices criteria eight (8) international land governance guidelines. Results show that Land rental markets are active as people recognise their role in addressing land hunger of temporary residents. However, absence of binding contracts in land rental arrangement creates open access land use rights, resulting in environment degradation. Communities are thus more interested in legally binding land rental contracts as these are perceived secure in safeguarding their investment. The research showed that five (5) of the best practices were partially met while three (3) others were not met at all. Neither distance from one's home area did have a significant statistical influence on the respondents' wish for the government to legalise agricultural land rental (P-value = 0.775 > α) nor was the association between residence status and ability to pay for rented land significant (Pvalue = 0.571 > α). However, there was a significant statistical association between willingness to rent farm land and ability to pay for the rented land (P-value = 0.015 < α). We thus recommend a participatory approach to reform the restrictions of the colonial system on land rental in communal and resettlement areas to meet the agricultural land demands of temporary migrants in accordance with the provisions of global land governance best practices.

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“…It is also regularly cited in policy discussions, especially with reference to foreign aid (e.g., Millennium Challenge Corporation 2012). Not surprisingly, there is a healthy body of work analyzing and critiquing the WGI (e.g., Kurtz and Schrank 2007;Thomas 2009;Arndt and Oman 2006;Langbein and Knack 2009;Knoll and Zloczysti 2011).…”

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Developing and evaluating governance indexes: 10 questions

Gisselquist

2014

Policy Studies

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Recent years have seen a proliferation of composite indicators or indexes of governance and their use in research and policy-making. This article proposes a framework of 10 questions to guide both the development and evaluation of such indexes. In reviewing these 10 questions -only six of which, it argues, are criticalthe paper advances two broad arguments: First, more attention should be paid to the fundamentals of social science methodology, that is, concept formation, content validity, reliability, replicability, robustness, and the relevance of particular measures to underlying research questions. Second, less attention should be paid to other issues more commonly highlighted in the literature on governance measurement, that is, descriptive complexity, theoretical fit, the precision of estimates, and 'correct' weighting. The paper builds on review of the literature and on three years of research in practice in developing a well-known governance index.

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The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions are Really Being Measured?

Cited by 18 publications

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Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries

Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries

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