Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128522 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 388
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
government quality
corruption
bureaucracy
social capital
JEL: 
O40
O43
P30
P48
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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