Is good governance good for development? / / edited by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
"While good governance is a worthy goal by itself, it is not a prerequisite for economic growth or development. This volume challenges the conventional good governance paradigm favoured by the donor community. It exposes the methodological shortcomings of the commonly used governance indicators...
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| Superior document: | United Nations Series on Development |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | United Nations Series on Development.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (207 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: Governance and development; Governance and growth: Conceptual, methodological and measurement issues; Is good governance necessary for development?; Corruption and economic growth; Reform implications and priorities; Book organization; References; Chapter 2 The seductiveness of good governance; Alien state intervention, indigenous democratic capitalism; Liberating civil society; Empowerment through cost recovery; Good governance as modernization theory; Conclusion; References
- Chapter 3 Good governance and donorsGood governance as a development policy theme; Donor involvement in the political affairs of recipients; Is good governance necessary for growth and poverty alleviation?; Can good governance be exported?; Good governance and equity; Concluding observation; Reference; Chapter 4 Perception and misperception in governance research: Evidence from latin america; Intellectual context; The limits to perceptions-based indicators in prospect: From explication to operationalization; Crime; Property rights; Judicial and security institutions
- Limits to perceptions-based indicators in practice: Quality versus quantityConclusion: Bringing objectivity back in?; References; Chapter 5 Good governance scripts: Will compliance improve form or functionality?; The development community''s story of good governance; The ''story'': Developed countries are governed like this; The reality: Developed countries are governed differently; Commonly good governance functionality comes through different forms; Form versus function in PFM systems; Good governments have commonly functional PFM systems
- Good governments were not more likely to adopt the fiscal rule ''form''Good governments achieve functionality with different forms; Different forms work differently in different contexts; Concluding thoughts; References; Chapter 6 Is governance reform a catalyst for development?; Institutions matter ... but how much?; Case studies in institutional development; United States; Argentina; Mauritius; Jamaica; Concluding points; References; Chapter 7 ''Poor governance'' for development in China and Vietnam; Good governance and development; Reforms in China and Vietnam; Devolution and local power
- Governance and service deliveryConclusion; References; Chapter 8 Beyond good governance: An agenda for developmental governance; The emergence of the market-enhancing governance agenda; The evidence; Developmental governance: An analytical framework; Learning and technology acquisition; Market failures in land markets; Conclusions; References; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z