Is good governance good for development?

"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 developed within the World Bank. It highlights the conceptual limitations or lack of clarity of good governance and debunks the central plank of the good governance hypothesis that good governance causes economic growth. The volume demonstrates that good governance can mean many things, and countries possessing features of good governance can be different both structurally and institutionally. Countries that are developed now did not have the ideal features of good governance - these features evolved with economic growth."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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