Development and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, access is more direct via websites, public billboards, and brochures. Moreover …, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development economies are more consistent in their transparency efforts across …

results and advocating specific development policies. Section 1 provides some conceptual underpinnings for the view that an … effective state is essential for development. It asks whether development can be engineered, and state capacity increased, with … large aid flows. Section 2 sketches the historical evolution of what characterizes the World Bank: lending to developing …

governance, as measured by aid distribution outcomes. In villages where elected councils exist and manage distributions, aid … distribution jointly with customary leaders also increases embezzlement. Thus, while elected councils can improve governance …

change while the other has signally failed. The two projects of different scale, scope and design in the same governance … and to critically assess the approach to institutional reform taken by development agencies such as the World Bank. …

This paper provides a review of the contradictions and conflicts in the literature on economic governance and sketches … an approach to use some of the conceptual and empirical findings from that literature for development policy. The … finds recipes for success that are infeasible, contradictory and shifting, and that ignore the role of luck in development …

development affect private investment decisions directly, and/or through their positive impact on governance. These findings bring …, with special emphasis on the role of governance. Based on the existing literature, the authors categorize what types of … governance institutions are more detrimental to entrepreneurial investments. They then estimate a simultaneous model of private …

The authors report on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 213 countries and territories … and measuring six dimensions of governance from 1996 until end-2005: voice and accountability, political stability and … experts worldwide. Although global averages of governance display no marked trends during 1996-2005, nearly one-third of …