Aart Kraay

TL;DR: In this paper, six dimensions of governance are estimated covering 199 countries and territories for four periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002, and the margins of errors for each country for the four periods are provided.

TL;DR: Dollar and Kraay as mentioned in this paper examined the effects of trade on the poor and concluded that the increase in growth rates that accompanies expanded trade translates on average into proportionate increases in incomes of the poor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors construct aggregate governance indicators for six dimensions of governance, covering 175 countries in 2000-01, and apply the methodology developed in Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobaton ("Aggregating Governance Indicators", Policy Research Working Paper 2195, and"Governance Matters", policy research working paper 2196, October 1999) to newly available data at governance indicators comparable with those constructed for 1997-98.

TL;DR: If international trade and investment primarily benefit the rich, many people will feel that restricting trade to protect jobs, culture, or the environment is worth the costs, but if restricting trade imposes further hardship on poor people in the developing world, many the same people will think otherwise.