# **Table B3:  Government Effectiveness**

**Code**

|**Code**|**Concept Measured**|
|---|---|
|**Repre**|**sentative Sources**|
|**BRI**|Bureaucratic delays|
|**DRI**|<br>_Government Inst ability_: An increase in government personnel turnover rate at senior levels that reduces the GDP growth rate by 2% during any<br>12-month period.|
||_Government Ineffectiveness:_A decline in government personnel quality at any level that reduces the GDP growth rate by 1% during any 12-|
||month period.<br>|
||_Institutional Failure:_A deterioration of government capacity to cope with national problems as a result of inst itutional rigidity that reduces the<br>GDP growth rate by 1% during any 12-month period.|
|**EGV**|<br>Global E-government|
|**EIU**|Quality of bureaucracy|
||Excessive bureaucracy / red tape|
|**GCS**|Quality of general infrastruct ure|
||Quality of public schools|
|**GWP**|Satisf action with public transportation system|
||Satisf action with roads and highways<br>|
||Satisf action with education system|
|**IPD**|Government-citizen relations|
||Capacity of the tax administration to implement measures decided on|
||<br>Quality of the supply of public goods: education and basic health|
||Capacity of the political authorities|
|**PRS**|_Bureaucratic Quality._Measures inst itutional strength and quality of the civil service, asse sses how much st rength and expertise bureaucrats|
||have and how able they are to manage political alternations without drastic interruptions in government services, or policy changes.|
|**WMO**|_Policy consistency and forward planning:_ How confident businesses can be of the continuity of economic policy stance - whether a change of<br>government will entail major policy disruption, and whether the current government has pursued a coherent st rategy.|
|**Non-r**|_Bureaucracy_**:**An assessm ent of the quality of the country’s bureaucracy. The better the bureaucracy the quicker decisions are made and the<br>more easily foreign investors can go about their business.<br>**epresentative Sources**|
|<br>**ADB**|<br>Management of public debt|
||Policies to improve efficiency of public sector|
||Revenue Mobilization|
||Budget Management|
|**AFR**|Government handling of water and sanitation services|
||<br>Government handling of roads and bridges|
||Government handling of electricity supply|
||Government handling of health services<br>|
||Government handling of education services|
|**ASD**|Civil service|
||Revenue Mobilization and Budget Management|
||Management and Efficiency of Public Expenditures|
|**BPS**|How problematic are telecommunications for the growth of your business|
||How roblematic is electricit for the rowth of our business|
||p y g y .<br>How problematic is transportation for the growth of your business|
|**BTI**|.<br>Consensus Building|
||Governance Capability<br>Effective Use of Resources|
|**CPIA**|<br>Management of external debt|
||<br>Quality public Administration|
||Revenue Mobilization|
||<br>Budget Management|
|**IFD**|<br>Allocation & management of publlic resources for rural development|
|**LBO**|<br>Trust in Government|
|**WCY**|Government economic policies do not adapt quickly to changes in the economy|
||The public service is not independent from political interference|
||<br>Government decisions are not effectively implemented|
||Bureaucracy hinders business act ivity|
||The distribution infrastructure of oods and services is enerall inefficient|
||g gy<br>Policy direct ion is not consistent|

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