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Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and Action
, 2007
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Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries: the Limits of Conventional Economic Analysis
- In International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption
, 2006
"... Corruption takes place when public officials break the law in pursuit of their private interest. But public officials can break different laws in different ways with different implications for the public good. The factors driving corruption and the effects of corruption can therefore vary widely. Un ..."
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Corruption takes place when public officials break the law in pursuit of their private interest. But public officials can break different laws in different ways with different implications for the public good. The factors driving corruption and the effects of corruption can therefore vary widely. Understanding the causes and consequences of corruption is particularly important in developing countries, which almost without exception suffer from high levels of corruption. The virtual uniformity of this evidence strongly suggests that developing countries must share some powerful common drivers of corruption that are different from those that affect advanced industrial countries. At the same time, the very diverse economic performance of developing countries suggests that not all developing countries suffer from the same types of corruption. These two observations, summarized in our first section, provide the backdrop to my analytical investigation. I begin this investigation by identifying the drivers of corruption implicit in most conventional neoclassical economic analysis of the topic. Although these drivers are undoubtedly important in many contexts, I next argue that a number of other drivers of corruption may be more
of Public Goods in Conflict-Affected and Transitioning Regions
, 2013
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North Korea: From Failing towards Reforming State?
"... According to most criteria, North Korea would be classified as a failing state. More often than not the country’s destiny has been predicted as collapse, chaos, and in the end, absorption by South Korea. However, so far the Kim Jong-il regime proved viable and cultivated the art to survive within a ..."
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According to most criteria, North Korea would be classified as a failing state. More often than not the country’s destiny has been predicted as collapse, chaos, and in the end, absorption by South Korea. However, so far the Kim Jong-il regime proved viable and cultivated the art to survive within a globalizing world without opening up. More recently, North Korean authorities appeared to revive an affinity towards South Korea’s sunshine policy. What is more, the country even seemed to initiate some rudimentary and cautious market-oriented reforms. If these are signs for a policy change, they are definitely not straightforward and they come with considerable uncertainties and risks. Especially, North Korea’s nuclear threat potential, its opaque international bargaining strategy, and its reliance on exports of military goods for hard currency revenues represent key obstacles. And yet, the North Korean elite, South Korean authorities, and the rest of the world do have a vital interest in avoiding an apocalypse on the Korean peninsula. All parties may have an interest in the maintenance of a politically sovereign, economically reforming state. This essay seeks to sketch a politically feasible and economically effective reform strategy for North Korea from a governance perspective. The main argument states that effective integration and economic transition of North Korea crucially depend on the emergence of specific transitional institutions which lead to efficiency gains and enhance the incentive compatibility of ruling the country and pursuing the nations’s welfare.
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"... A growing body of theory and evidence suggests that the state must do more than create an economic environment for market-driven growth if markets are to deliver sustained increases in investment, production and employment to reduce poverty. The contemporary focus on good governance reforms in devel ..."
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A growing body of theory and evidence suggests that the state must do more than create an economic environment for market-driven growth if markets are to deliver sustained increases in investment, production and employment to reduce poverty. The contemporary focus on good governance reforms in developing countries is based on developing market-enhancing governance capabilities of states. If successful, this type of governance should make markets more efficient. However, the evidence in support of these reforms is poor. The cross-sectional evidence can be used to extract some support for the importance of market-enhancing governance, but the data is weak and can support a number of different results. The evidence that is available is presented in this paper, and we argue that it actually supports the view that ‘good governance ’ reforms are difficult to implement in any developing country. Rapidly growing countries in general did not enjoy better market-enhancing governance conditions compared to the others. If some developing countries nevertheless did very well in terms of sustained convergence, they must have had some other governance capabilities that allowed them to
D. Green, Active Citizens and Effective States: Definitions and Interactions Active Citizens and Effective States: Definitions and Interactions: a Critical Review
, 2010
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The Political Economy of Growth
, 2013
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Seeking: Preliminary Evidence from
, 2015
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© Copyright is held by the autho(s) of each Working Paper. 1 ISSUE: 2015 NO.03 Papers in this series are preliminary in nature and are intended to stimulate discussion and critical comment. The Editorial Committee accepts no responsibility for facts presented and views expressed, which rests exclusively with the individual author or authors. No part of this publication may be produced in any form without permission. Comments are welcomed and may be sent to the author(s). Citations of this electronic publication should be made in the following manner: Author(s), “Title,”
