Re-Construction of Private Indicators for Public Purposes

Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pistor, Katharina ^a  

^a The Earth Institute at Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative data sets; Development policies; First generation indicators; Governmental institutional quality; Multilateral agencies; Raw data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920483177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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