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• Haiti was not a Developing Country
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• TI Corruption
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• Civil Liberties & Investment Performance
• Colonial Origins of Development
• Colonialism and Inequality
• Governance Indicators: Survey Article (WBRO)
• Governance Matters VIII: Governance Indicators 1996-2008
• Grease Money Speeds Up the Wheels of Commerce?
• Growth without Governance
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• Legal Corruption
• Seize the State, Seize the Day — on Capture

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Some Presentations

• Keynote @ Rule of Law Conference in Seoul

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• Easterly's Aid Watch
• Global Witness
• Governance Matters @ World Bank
• IMF Fiscal Tranparency
• Internews
• Revenue Watch
• The Economist’s Voice
• Transparency International
• U4 Anticorruption

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Archive for January, 2012

Iran’s Ahmadinejad warmly welcomed in Latin America, or not quite?: Misgovernance in one chart

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Latin America has received wide coverage.  Much is being written about the fact that the President of Iran, increasingly isolated around the world, can count on a warm welcome in one continent, Latin America, providing him with excellent photo-ops embracing the region’s leaders, thereby stinging the U.S. It is however [...]

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