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The Zero Weight That Sank Citizen Voices

The Zero Weight That Sank Citizen Voices

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A World Bank indicator claims to reflect citizens, but a key survey gets zero weight-what does this mean for Nairobi?

The Zero Weight That Sank Citizen Voices

This episode explores the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), a dataset used to measure governance in over 200 countries. It reveals a critical discrepancy between the WGI's public claims of citizen representation and the actual weighting of data sources, particularly concerning the Rule of Law indicator.

Person: Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay
Organization: World Bank, World Bank Institute, Gallup World Bank, Global Insight
Date: 1990s, 1996, 2002
Topic: Worldwide Governance Indicators, Rule of Law, Foreign Aid, Sovereign Bond Ratings
Status: Methodologically contested

- The World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) were developed in the 1990s to measure governance across six dimensions, including Rule of Law.
- The Gallup World Bank, a survey of ordinary citizens, was publicly advertised by the World Bank Institute as proof that citizen voices were represented in the WGI.
- Technical documentation revealed that the Gallup World Bank received zero weight on the Rule of Law indicator, despite public claims.
- The Rule of Law score, influenced by this zero weighting, is used by Moody's, Standard and Poor's, and Fitch for sovereign bond ratings.
- The United States Millennium Challenge Corporation also uses this score to determine which poor countries receive foreign aid.

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