The Challenge of Poor Governance and Corruption
Original version
Working Paper, NUPI nr 665. NUPI, 2004Abstract
The paper is the author’s so-called ‘Opponent paper « to Susan Rose-
Ackerman’s proposals for good governance and anti-corruption poli-cies at the Copenhagen
Consensus 2004 meeting 24–28 May. There the most promising anti-corruption
policies had to compete with other best poli-cies at other fields such as fight against AIDS,
malaria, hunger prevention, and so on. He argues that while corruption and governance
problems are important and may prevent any other kind of policy to succeed, no really
effective anti-corruption policy has so far been proposed, and if it was, we wouldn’t know
that it did. Hence, it would be unreasonable to make a strong claim for anti-corruption
projects against their competitors.
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