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Strengthening African Governance: index of African governance result and rankings
14 November 2010 | Africa, Corruption, Global Index, Human Rights, Justice, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThe 2009 Index of African Governance seeks to measure the degree to which five categories of political goods - Safety and Security; Rule of Law,...
WomanStats Database Codebook / Variable List
18 June 2012 | Guide / Manual / Indicators, Academic/Think TankThe WomanStats Project is a team of researchers dedicated to the continual expansion of the WomanStats Database, as well as the pursuit of research...
Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries
16 November 2010 | Civil Society, Global Index, Human Rights, Academic/Think Tank60 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid the foundations for the right to the highest attainable standard of...
Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index: Country Scores and Rankings
12 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Human Rights, Academic/Think TankBuilding on previously proposed methodology for an index of economic and social rights fulfillment, this paper presents country scores and...
Economic Rights in the Land of Plenty: Monitoring State Fulfillment of Economic and Social Rights Obligations in the United States
20 April 2012 | Academic/Think Tank, Civil Society'This paper uses the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment, ESRF, Index proposed by Randolph, Fukuda-Parr, and Lawson-Remer (Fukuda-Parr et al...
Strengthening African Governance: index of african governance results and rankings
15 October 2010 | Africa, Conflict, Electoral Systems, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Justice, Report, Academic/Think TankThe Index of African Governance is compiled and updated annually by a team of researchers at Harvard University and across Africa, under...
What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?
04 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Human Rights, Justice, Academic/Think TankThis journal article from the European Journal of Development Research discusses the ‘construct validity’ of qualitative...
Response to ‘What do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?
04 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Human Rights, Justice, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis article, published in the European Journal for Development Research is a response to the article “What do the Worldwide...
Foreign Direct Investment and Civil Rights: Testing Decreasing Returns to Civil Rights
08 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Justice, Latin America and the Carribean, Academic/Think TankIn this paper, the effectiveness of improvements in political and civil rights for attracting foreign direct investment flows (FDI) into democracies...
Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: Will the green shoots blossom?
08 November 2010 | Africa, Article / Working Paper, Human Rights, Academic/Think TankThis paper provides an overview of the recent extension of social protection in sub- Saharan Africa. It identifies two main ‘models...