Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) provide transparent and comparable country statistics for different dimensions of governance linked to (under)development. Yet, does the public availability of governance data actually enhance performance? If investors, donor agencies, and citizens are made aware of relative governance performance, competition for inward investment, such as FDI and ODA, and domestic legitimacy become plausible mechanisms for diffusion of good governance. We test whether such mechanisms operate using the WGI for Africa, and find evidence for spatial diffusion of democracy, rule of law, and corruption control. There is no evidence for diffusion of regulatory quality and government effectiveness

Corruption and governance around the world. An empirical investigation

Corruptie leidt ertoe dat mensen arm en analfabeet blijven, lijden onder een hoge kindersterfte, een laag geboortegewicht van baby's, alsmede een hoge uitval op de basisschool (Kaufmann en Al., 1999; Gupta ea., 2001). Tevens verslechtert de inkomensverdeling binnen landen (Li et al., 2000), de kwaliteit van de openbare infrastructuur (Tanzi en Davoodi, 1997), en de productiviteitsgroei (Lambsdorff, 2003a) door corruptie. Zie: Samenvatting

Kredit untuk rakyat : dari mekanisme arisan hingga BPR

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Is corruption really persistent?

Theoretical and empirical research on corruption generally concludes that corruption is persistent. However, using International Country Risk Guide data for the period 1984-2008 for 101 countries, we find strong evidence that corruption changes over time. In the present study, corruption levels of many countries decline, whereas those of other countries rise over the same period. We find that this convergence process is not continuous: there is an improvement in world corruption in the first part of our sample period, but a worsening in the second half