Comments on: Corruption Index today, Development Aid Reform tomorrow?

By: Kaufmann

Kaufmann — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:33:44 +0000

Eric,
your comment is much appreciated, as is you recalling our collaboration in the governance core course in Brussels years ago! Indeed, the destiny of each country should be in the hands of their own people, and not by any outside donor. Part of the problem is that many official donors are still obsessed with channeling funds and working through high level officials in central government. These are at times ineffective at best, or corrupt and unrepresentative of the people and communities, at worst. In terms of indicators, first, the aggregate governance indicators we (WGI) and others (TI, IIAG, etc.) provide cover many some of the broader dimensions you and investors are interested in, and then, second, in the website http://www.govindicators.org you can also access to the hundreds of disaggregated indicators we use for the composite ones. Many of the disaggregate indicators do capture very specific dimensions of what you are interested in.

By: Eric van Beek

Eric van Beek — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:46:55 +0000

I have attended your “core course on governance, Brussels” in 2004 with excitement.

My frustration is that the indicators of corruption might be technical correct, the real policy in daily live for the developing countries is so differently and not to be controlled by aiding countries or NOG’s alone. Countries tend to contribute if the can also benefit from their own aid, more business wise.

What about developing indicators that can describe or can predict that (business) opportunities aspect. Like, reduce of treat indicators, possible oil export indicator, possible positive exposure (marketing), possible ect…

Sadly, I think that countries are willing to help an other country not sole to reduce poverty or decrease corruption. Therefore i think that providing other indicators could also be helpful to predict the growth of human welfare.

Don’t you think so?

PS loved your courses.

By: Ruben Canlas

Ruben Canlas — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:24:21 +0000

Thanks for your work on setting up the indicators. I’m now doing a paper on applying data mining techniques to the indicators fused with the the Human Development Index. :)