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Selected Papers

• Civil Liberties and Government Performance
• Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development
• Democratization and Clientelism
• Governance Indicators: Where are We, Where Should We Be Going?
• Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
• Growth without Governance
• Human Rights and Governance: the Empirical Challenge
• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development

Some Brief Articles

• Civil Liberties Matters for Aid Project Performance
• Human Rights Matters for Economic Development
• Prof. Winston Comment on Human Rights and Development

Some Sites I Like

• DevGateway Governance
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• Governance Matters @ World Bank
• IMF Code of Good Practices in Fiscal Tranparency
• The Economist’s Voice
• The U4 Group on Anticorruption
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Oil, capture and corruption illustrated?: Alaska’s hotel Baranoff, suite 604…

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Alaska: 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 […]

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