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<p>In recent years, the developing world has seen a burst of efforts to reduce corruption, increase transparency and accountability, and improve governance. Needless to say, this is an important and encouraging development. However, the lack of a reliable compass to describe where a country is at a given moment —and where it could be heading in the absence or acceptance of proposed reforms —can result in disastrous missteps. The unfortunate absence of such a guide has helped lead to innumerable failed governments or ineffective regimes. This important book aims to fill that void.</p> <p><i>How to Improve Governance</i> emphasizes the need for an overall analytical framework that can be applied to different countries to help analyze their current situations, identify potential areas for improvement, and assess their relative feasibility and the steps needed to promote them. A country-specific analysis needs to be comprehensive, in the sense that it includes the four concepts of transparency, accountability, governance, and anticorruption throughout the calculus. Without such an analytic framework, any reform attempt is likely to flounder for lack of a shared understanding of the und

Author

David M. De Ferranti; Justin Jacinto; Anthony J. Ody

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815702832

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Military