Sentence examples for measuring governance from inspiring English sources

Building on the advances of the World Bank, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Transparency International and other agencies in measuring governance, the Commission recommends the development of a long-term impact index.

Navin Girishankar, the main author of the study and an evaluation officer with the independent group, said the World Bank needed "innovation on multiple fronts: new financial instruments, better metrics for measuring governance performance, a more harmonized and consistent approach to risk management and a more strategic allocation of internal resources".

Given that there is no obvious way of measuring governance, one solution is to build an index that captures the essence of the concept by translating observable attributes of the regulatory agency and its environment into a number ranging from 0 to 1 (low-to-high quality governance).

In this baseline study, we validated a simple tool for measuring governance at health facility level.

The current data sets used to measure governance, for example the World Bank, are based in developed countries, particularly the US.

It once again ranks first in the latest annual Mo Ibrahim index, which measures governance in Africa.

Tunisia ranks eighth, Egypt 11th, Algeria 14th, Morocco 16th and Muammar Gaddafi's Libya 23rd in the list, created by the billionaire philanthropist Mo Ibrahim to measure governance across 84 performance indicators.

After reading articles by Robert Rotberg, then the director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict, at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Ibrahim asked him to design a system to rigorously measure governance in Africa.

There are myriad ways to measure governance, but the crucial attributes of good governance include the quality of the board, the quality of the accounting and financial reporting, the compensation of the CEO, and the rights of shareholders - particularly minority shareholders.

Different conceptual frameworks have been proposed to define and measure governance, and its potential effect on health system performance and health service delivery [ 13– 20].

Ghana and Mozambique explicitly measure governance, focusing on collecting documentation of management and evidence-based allocation of resources including use in Ghana of a tool specifically designed to enable managers to make budget decisions based on need rather than previous allocations.