MEASURING GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BY

STATISTICAL SERIES AND INDICATORS

Sikiru Adeyinka Abdulazeez

Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna

E-mail:  ysabdul94@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Statistics serves as a tool for measuring the performance of all aspects of an economy. Good governance in all its dimensions can be monitored using reliable series and indicators. Despite the enormity of the challenges faced by the Nigerian administration, it has failed to utilize adequate facts and figures in keeping track of its progress. The current administration has pledged to take joint responsibility to eradicate widespread poverty in the country and place it on a path of sustained economic growth and development. This paper highlights the series and indicators that can be used to appraise good governance and development. Governance is however contextual. While it is possible to identify concepts and principles of governance that are universal, they make no sense without adequate contextual reference. Nigeria can use the highlighted indicators as a measure of its performance in terms of economic growth, human development as well as democratic and political governance.