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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008The first G-20 summit, focused on the financial crisis, just took place this past weekend. When measured against expectations of such gatherings, there were some accomplishments. Such as in trade: the collective pledge to avoid raising any trade and investment barriers, or the promise to ‘strive’ for a deal on the stalled Doha round. And [...]
Capture and the Financial Crisis: An Elephant forcing a rethink of Corruption?
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Mushrooming analysis of the determinants of the financial crisis are all over the web. They range from simplistic and blanket accusations of the ‘greed’ of the market capitalism to the arcane technical explanation of a misguided regulatory covenant on the other. And the spectrum in between is crowded, including the misstep by Treasury Secretary Paulson in letting [...]
Orden en la Jungla: Estado de Derecho y Economía
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Recientemente este polémico y contundente artículo sobre Estado de Derecho apareció en ‘The Economist’, en inglés (ver original). Y hubo discusión al respecto en nuestro blog (aquí). Ahora el blog ‘Chile Liberal’ ha traducido el artículo al castellano (aquí).
‘Governance-on-the-Go’, or GonGo: the citizen at the center of an IT-enabled governance breakthrough?
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008I am now at the Fortune BrainstormTech, which aims to relate innovations in technology to larger world problems it can solve. The event just started, featuring fascinating evening panels with tech leaders (here). One of the sessions I will co-lead tomorrow, with Ross Mayfield of Socialtext, is on governance. In this forthcoming interactive lab we will try to advance the [...]
‘Governance Matters’: A new blog on governance at the World Bank
Monday, May 26th, 2008With the just launched ‘Governance Matters’ blog, the World Bank has now fully joined the governance blogosphere. The idea was afoot for many months. There was initial pushback by a few higher ups. But support from many quarters and persistence prevailed, helped by the growing recognition of the importance of blogging in today’s world. And this personal blog I have hosted for a [...]
Human Rights, Aid Effectiveness, and Development: a few findings for debate today, and tomorrow…
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Today, May 15th, an initiative called Bloggers Unite for Human Rights, was launched. The international NGO on Human Rights, Amnesty International, is partnering with BlogCatalog.com, the bloggers’ social network, so to raise global social awareness on this important issue. Bloggers around the world are being asked to post about human rights. Hundreds of postings [...]
Rule of Law Matters: is it that shocking?
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008The National Townhall meeting on Rule of Law, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Law Day, did take place a few days ago. I was the only non-legal expert in the panel. Apparently that drew some curiosity, as I gather from the American Bar Association (ABA) story here. They write that it takes an economist to point out that Rule [...]
Blogging for governance: on countries and governments
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008In my last blog entry a couple of days ago, I discussed the importance of watchdog NGOs for IFI accountability and transparency, and also gave a list of some NGOs that blog, and of some that do not. Yet nowadays blogging is also of paramount importance for making governments and their actions more transparent and [...]
talking about rule of law…
Thursday, April 17th, 2008I accepted an invitation to be a panelist in the ”National Town Hall Meeting” on the Rule of Law, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Law Day, which will be held on Wednesday, April 30th, from 4 to 6pm. It is sponsored by the American Bar Association (ABA), in cooperation with the just opened Newseum (at 55 Pennsylvania Ave., in [...]
Myth #4: From Crisis to Regulating (or Transparenting instead?)
Friday, April 11th, 2008Recall the downfall of Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat and others, in the aftermath of the vast corporate corruption scandals a few years back. Then we witnessed a push for tightening the corporate regulatory framework in the US (through SOX). It is naïve to argue now that it makes sense to return to the pre-Enron and pre-SOX regulatory framework. Or to continue [...]
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