Archive for March, 2008
Myth # 3: Governance cannot be defined?
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008In debunking the previous myth, I tried to challenge those ‘governoskeptics’ who doubt that governance and rule of law matter much for growth and development. Yet governoskeptics come in different guises; for instance there are those that do not believe that governance can be measured — I leave that claim for a future blog entry. Here I address those ‘governoskeptics’ who claim that governance is nearly impossible to define.
There are […]
Myth #2: Only Rich Countries can afford Good Governance & Rule of Law? — on The Economist’s ‘Order in the Jungle’
Thursday, March 13th, 2008“Order in the Jungle” is the title in this week’s essay in The Economist on Rule of Law and Economics (access here). Does Rule of Law really matters? — that is one essential question addressed in that essay, which draws from noted work by Sen, North, Fukuyama, Carrothers, Sunstein, Rodrik and Subramanian, Daniels and Trebilcock, and Shleifer et al, as […]
Oil, capture and corruption illustrated?: Alaska’s hotel Baranoff, suite 604…
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Alaska: hardly a tropical developing state. This vivid illustration of alleged corruption, in the video below, exemplifies the general point in the Governance Myth #1: there is a way to go in improving governance in industrialized countries as well.
Rather than pointing a finger at a particular state, firm, or individual, posting a video link excerpted from a program aired by PBS is meant to illustrate […]
Myth #1: Developing world hopelessly corrupt; Industrialized countries in Nirvana?
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Myth #1. Developing countries, and governments in particular, are all rife with corruption, while corruption is virtually absent in much of the rich industrialized world.
Actually, the reality is different. The evidence points to an enormous diversity in the extent of corruption within emerging economies, and among industrialized countries as well. The data suggests that some emerging […]
Myths About Governance
Saturday, March 1st, 2008In spite of progress in this field over the past decade, particularly in terms of research, measurement, and some lessons from experience, governance and corruption remain controversial and often misunderstood topics. There are a number of common misconceptions and popular notions which are now coming under challenge as a result of the analysis of the evidence.
At the […]