Indicadores Mundiales de Gobernabilidad 2009
By Kaufmann | July 2, 2009 | No Comments »
Acabamos de salir a la luz con los Indicadores Mundiales de Gobernabilidad 2009, y con el nuevo reporte ‘Governance Matters’. El resumen, reporte y datos estan aqui.
Access to all the WGI materials in English, here. In Chinese, here.
Topics: Aid Effectiveness, Corruption, Measurement Frontiers, Public Financial Management, Public-Private Linkages, Rule of Law, Transparency, Voice and Human Rights | Read and Submit Comments
Governance Matters 2009: Learning From Over a Decade of the Worldwide Governance Indicators
By Kaufmann | June 29, 2009 | No Comments »
Today we are releasing the report Governance Matters VIII, which includes the new update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI). Now collaborating from the Brookings Institution, I continue to take part in this research project with my former World Bank colleagues Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi.
In the WGI we construct and measure six dimensions of governance, namely: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption.
The new WGI is based on 35 different data sources, aggregating data from hundreds of disaggregated questions posed to tens of thousands respondents, covering 212 countries around the world.
Access to the new Governance Matters report is here, and to the data is here. A synthesis can be found here.
While we find little evidence of improved governance worldwide on average over the past decade, there is a very pronounced variation in performance across countries. Some countries have markedly improved markedly, other have deteriorated. The all mighty countries in the G-8 are not the models of good governance; instead the Nordics and New Zealand are. Some emerging economies do better in governance that some rich OECD countries.
Access to a synthesis in Chinese, here. En Español, aqui
Topics: Aid Effectiveness, Corruption, Measurement Frontiers, Public Financial Management, Public-Private Linkages, Rule of Law, Transparency, Voice and Human Rights | Read and Submit Comments
Back to the Future in the Middle East: Governance Stagnation
By Kaufmann | June 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am at the Hanoi airport right now, blogging for a few minutes while CNN alternates between Michael Jackson and Iran. I just gave a set of presentations on governance in Hanoi and Seoul. There was interest about what does the governance data which we have collected and analyzed over the years tell us. Among other findings, I happen to think that the enormous variation in governance performance around the world is noteworthy.
But at times some in the audience are particularly interested in the finding that on average there is no evidence that over the past decade the world has improved on governance. Some find such finding of stagnating governance around the world (on average) hard to believe, pointing to some countries making strides. Yet the developments in Iran is a stark reminder of how prone countries can also be to deteriorate on governance…
Topics: Rule of Law, Voice and Human Rights | 1 Comment
Grand Donor Illusion and Larceny in Africa?
By Kaufmann | June 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week’s piece in the New York Times (NYT, and in IHT) on ill-fated Anti-Corruption commissions and campaigns in a number of prominent countries in Africa elicited some comment, both in this blog space and elsewhere. I also got separate communications and feedback, including on the role of donors and aid, which was not the main part of the New York Times story.
In today’s NYT own editorial page, their Opinion piece makes the responsibility of donors rather clear.
Sharply titled Grand Larceny Africa, this NYT editorial may perhaps serve as yet another wake up call to the donor community and the ‘aid effectiveness’ industry. There is a need for revamp in the outmoded (and in many instances waning) approach to governance and anticorruption in general — Africa being no exception…
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Topics: Aid Effectiveness, Corruption, Public Financial Management, Rule of Law, Voice and Human Rights, capture | 1 Comment
Financial Crisis, Africa’s Permanent Damage, and Aid Effectiveness
By Kaufmann | June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Aid is dead: it is worse than merely useless, since it abets and perpetuates mis-governance and dependency by Africa. No, to the contrary, massive additional infusions of aid are crucial for all of Africa. This massive transfer of aid to governments in Africa is particularly urgent right now, in the midst of the financial crisis, which is bound to inflict permanent damage everywhere in the continent.
These blanket statements are nonsense, on both sides. While they may contain a ’straw man’ element, unfortunately in slight variants one often sees such pronouncements in current writings and public debates. In spite of the practical irrelevance of holding on to such extreme positions, such artificial debates go on and on, pitting the extremes against each other. The media loves it. Each side of the argument tends to fit selective ‘facts’ (and hyperbola) to their extreme cause. Even reasonable analysts tend to write about one single determinant for the ills of Africa, or just opt to focus on one extreme side of the argument or the other.
Who knows — perhaps moving away from a single-minded extreme position doesn’t really sell?
Related to this, I wrote after interviewing Bob Geldoff at the G-20 Summit in London. It is far less appealing for a media story to have to report that aid can work effectively and can help, but only under certain conditions — in particular where there is a serious commitment to improved governance by recipient country government and by donors. And not otherwise…
Topics: Aid Effectiveness, Corruption, G-20, financial crisis | 2 Comments
Financial Crisis as the Kiss of Death to the Governance Agenda?
By Kaufmann | May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In a recent blog entry, Dani Rodrik compliments the overall work of Simon Johnson and of mine. Then he specifically finds fault with our argument regarding the link between corruption and the current crisis in the US, and goes on to claim that: ‘…the financial crisis has killed the governance reform agenda’…
Topics: Corruption, Measurement Frontiers, Rule of Law, capture, financial crisis | 1 Comment
Captura del Estado y Corrupción Legal en los EEUU: Realidad o Ilusión?
By Kaufmann | April 25, 2009 | No Comments »
Hace más de una década comenzamos con mi ex-colega Joel Hellman el proyecto de investigación sobre ‘captura del estado’. Nos enfocamos en las economías de transición de aquellos tiempos, donde en países como Rusia y Ucrania los oligarcas eran tan poderosos que, con sobornos e influencia indebida, capturaban las leyes, regulaciones y políticas públicas del estado — para su propio beneficio privado, al desmedro del resto de la sociedad…
Topics: Aid Effectiveness, Corruption, Measurement Frontiers, Public-Private Linkages, Rule of Law, capture, financial crisis | Read and Submit Comments
Financial Crisis and the Media: Capture, Culture and Incentives, or Lack of Training?
By Kaufmann | April 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
There has been increasing attention paid to whether regulatory capture, as well as other forms of state capture, played a role in the financial crisis. Less attention has been paid to whether capture of the media, and of the financial media in particular, also took place, and what role, if any it had in the financial crisis. Lionel Barber, the highly respected editor of UK’s Financial Times (FT), has entered this debate, even if in a tentative manner, in his Poynter Fellowship lecture at Yale (and in abridged form, in the FT yesterday)…
Topics: Corruption, Transparency, Voice and Human Rights, capture, financial crisis | 6 Comments
V Summit of the Americas Concludes with ‘Winners’ and ‘Losers’
By Kaufmann | April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The 5th Summit of the Americas has just ended, attended by 34 heads of states who spent a number of days in Trinidad and Tobago. Their teams had also spent a couple of years preparing the ‘Declaration’ for this Summit.
In the event, such ‘Declaration’ was not approved or signed by all the Heads of State. They couldn’t reach full agreement, even though it contained so little concrete. As instructed by the Heads of States participating in the Summit, a final document was issued which was signed only by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, as the host. This particular approach to appear as if there is a modicum of consensus may have been unprecedented.
Topics: Aid Effectiveness, Corruption, G-20, capture, financial crisis | 1 Comment
Concluye la Quinta Cumbre de las Américas: Ganadores y Perdedores
By Kaufmann | April 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
La Quinta cumbre de las Américas acaba de terminar en Trinidad y Tobago, donde los 34 países estuvieron presentes varios días. Ni siquiera llegaron a un acuerdo unánime sobre la declaración final, a pesar de que la prepararon durante un par de años.
Solo se habla ahora de que existe un “documento de compromiso”, que obtuvo aprobación de algunos y la negativa de otros. El texto final no fue firmado por los jefes de Estado y gobierno presentes sino simplemente ‘adoptado’ (y no por todos…). Precisamente: fue firmada por uno de los asistentes a la Cumbre, el Primer Ministro de Trinidad y Tobago, a quien los otros mandatarios asistentes le dieron instrucciones que firme solo, ya que era anfitrion. Al parecer esto no tiene precedente…
Topics: Corruption, Rule of Law, capture, financial crisis | 1 Comment
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