Is Good Governance Good for Development?

By: Chowdhury (Editor), Rob Vos (Editor), Malinka Koparanova (Editor)

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Paperback | 2 October 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Whilst good governance is a worthy goal by itself, this book argues that it is not a prerequisite for economic growth or development. Challenging the conventional good governance paradigm favoured by the donor community, the book exposes the methodological shortcomings of the commonly-used governance indicators developed within the World Bank. Good governance can mean many things, and countries possessing features of good governance can be different both structurally and institutionally. Donors should not impose onerous good governance conditions with the expectation that developing countries must all look the same in the image of now developed countries. Most poor countries do not have administrative and financial capacity to achieve these reforms or institutions, and hence the donor conditionality often becomes a recipe for failure. Instead of grand governance reforms aimed at enhancing market efficiency, this book suggests that the reform agenda should aim at strategic bottlenecks for development and enhance state capacity and capabilities to deal with these disruptions. It argues that aggregate good governance indicators are less helpful for identifying governance failure in specific areas needing policy interventions. Bringing together contributions from leading political scientists, political economists and development practitioners, this is the first book to focuses on the good governance issues addressed in this volume, and provides a critical perspective.

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