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Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
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This study helps users find their way through the jungle of governance indicators, and shows how they tend to be widely misused both in international comparisons and in tracking changes in individual countries.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Oman, C. P., & Arndt, C.
- Venue
- Development Centre Studies
- Publisher
- OECD
- Published
- 2006-07-26
- ISSN
- 1563-4302 (ISSN-L)
- 1990-0295
- OpenAlex
- W609684909
- Cited by
- 507
- References
- 39
- FWCI
- 30.72
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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