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| Title: | | Governance, democracy and poverty reduction: lessons drawn from household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America  |
| Authors: | | Herrera, Javier Razafindrakoto, Mireille Roubaud, François |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion papers // Ibero America Institute for Economic Research 136 |
| Abstract: | | Public statistics face quite a challenge when it comes to measuring new dimensions of development (institutions, governance, and social and political participation). To take up this challenge, modules on Governance, Democracy and Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin-American developing countries. This paper presents the issues addressed and the methodological lessons learnt along with a selection of findings to illustrate this innovative approach and demonstrate its analytic potential. We investigate, for instance, the populations support for democratic principles, the respect for civil and political rights and the trust in the political class; the need for the State, particularly of the poorest; the extent of petty corruption; the reliability of expert surveys on governance; the perception of decentralisation policies at local level; the level and vitality of social and political participation, etc. The conclusive appraisal made opens up prospects for the national statistical information systems in the developing countries. The measurement and tracking of this new set of objective and subjective public policy monitoring indicators would benefit from being made systematic. |
| JEL: | | I31 I32 I38 H11 D73 O54 O55 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Discussion Papers, IAI, Universität Göttingen
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