Comments on: Myth #4: From Crisis to Regulating (or Transparenting instead?) http://thekaufmannpost.net/myth-4-from-crisis-to-regulating-or-transparenting/ Transparency, corruption and governance matters, evidence-based Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:11:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kim Bettcher, CIPE http://thekaufmannpost.net/myth-4-from-crisis-to-regulating-or-transparenting/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Kim Bettcher, CIPE Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:30:40 +0000 http://thekaufmannpost.net/myth-4-from-crisis-to-regulating-or-transparenting/#comment-39 Indeed, transparency and effective regulation are superior to excessive regulation, which not only causes inefficiencies but can serve as an incentive and a cover for corruption. I'm glad to see that your top ten recommendations cover transparency across both public and private sectors. Let me share an example of the power of transparency from the experience of the Center for International Private Enterprise. After the Administrative Simplification Law was passed in Peru in 1989, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD, led by Hernando De Soto) mounted a campaign to ensure the new law would be observed. ILD collected complaints from citizens regarding incidents of bureaucrats' noncompliance with the law. If the authorities still failed to comply after prompting, cases were referred to a televised Administrative Simplification Tribunal, chaired by the president of Peru. That got bureaucrats' attention--and hundreds of procedures were simplified concerning international commerce, issuance of passports, marriage certificates, and other requirements. Indeed, transparency and effective regulation are superior to excessive regulation, which not only causes inefficiencies but can serve as an incentive and a cover for corruption. I’m glad to see that your top ten recommendations cover transparency across both public and private sectors. Let me share an example of the power of transparency from the experience of the Center for International Private Enterprise.

After the Administrative Simplification Law was passed in Peru in 1989, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD, led by Hernando De Soto) mounted a campaign to ensure the new law would be observed. ILD collected complaints from citizens regarding incidents of bureaucrats’ noncompliance with the law. If the authorities still failed to comply after prompting, cases were referred to a televised Administrative Simplification Tribunal, chaired by the president of Peru. That got bureaucrats’ attention–and hundreds of procedures were simplified concerning international commerce, issuance of passports, marriage certificates, and other requirements.

]]> By: ProfDr.sc.Plamen K. Georgiev http://thekaufmannpost.net/myth-4-from-crisis-to-regulating-or-transparenting/comment-page-1/#comment-36 ProfDr.sc.Plamen K. Georgiev Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:39:37 +0000 http://thekaufmannpost.net/myth-4-from-crisis-to-regulating-or-transparenting/#comment-36 A "transparancy revolution" is what Daniel Kaufmann might well be promoting indeed. The 10 top reform items in this aspect are most correct and with rationale. Regulative reppression in developing (or countries in transition) states, especially those in SE Europe as Bulgaria, Romania etc. feed on some rest-overwhelming-totalitarian state Patronage however. Look at the "small" oligarchs which have captured the stumbling new democracies at this side. Or even infltrated state institutions and the quasi-political system. Conflicts of interests, partisanships and nepotism (of most exotic nature), manipulative campaigns of "independent" media, shape an environment of most unpredictable and dangerous kind. The change to "more sun" over the muddy waters arround seeme less probable without a "third party" resolute involvement in this process of fight against corruption. In so far this "party" is a new international commnity engaged morally with a collapcing world of poverty and rising uncertainties. Government only - especially those of semi-ruined or failed national states (as on the Balkans) are not up to this appeal of Kaufmann. A new system of glocal control over fraud, corrupt patronages and networks of extortion seem to us of high demand. Certainly this is not and should not be a matter of sheer overregulating. Corruption is even more fluid in a global world. We need some softer paternalism of a new kind that might back the change to more transparacy. Looking directly to the sun with no sunglasses might be another disaster... and return to a new dark age of the Balkans. A “transparancy revolution” is what Daniel Kaufmann might well be promoting indeed. The 10 top reform items in this aspect are most correct and with rationale. Regulative reppression in developing (or countries in transition) states, especially those in SE Europe as Bulgaria, Romania etc. feed on some rest-overwhelming-totalitarian state Patronage however. Look at the “small” oligarchs which have captured the stumbling new democracies at this side. Or even infltrated state institutions and the quasi-political system. Conflicts of interests, partisanships and nepotism (of most exotic nature), manipulative campaigns of “independent” media, shape an environment of most unpredictable and dangerous kind. The change to “more sun” over the muddy waters arround seeme less probable without a “third party” resolute involvement in this process of fight against corruption. In so far this “party” is a new international commnity engaged morally with a collapcing world of poverty and rising uncertainties. Government only – especially those of semi-ruined or failed national states (as on the Balkans) are not up to this appeal of Kaufmann. A new system of glocal control over fraud, corrupt patronages and networks of extortion seem to us of high demand. Certainly this is not and should not be a matter of sheer overregulating. Corruption is even more fluid in a global world. We need some softer paternalism of a new kind that might back the change to more transparacy. Looking directly to the sun with no sunglasses might be another disaster… and return to a new dark age of the Balkans.

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