Governance and Developing Asia: Concepts, Measurements, Determinants, and Paradoxes

Arbeitspapier

Recent years have seen the emergence of a considerable volume of literature on governance and its role in economic and social development of a country. This paper provides a critical review of the literature. This review brings into the open a number of serious conceptual, measurement, and data issues as well as the existence of an Asian governance paradox - i.e., a general disjunction between growth and governance in most Asian economies. This paradox seems to suggest that much of the current policy discussion on governance is essentially faith-based. It calls into question the quality of the existing data and the analytical basis of the policy orthodoxy.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ADB Economics Working Paper Series ; No. 388

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General ; Institutions and Growth ; Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: General ; Other Economic Systems: Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies
• Subject: government quality ; corruption ; bureaucracy ; social capital

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Quibria, M.G.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• (where): Manila
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/128522
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET