Corruption, good governance and economic development : contemporary analysis and case studies

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Corruption, Good Governance and Economic Development: Contemporary Analysis and Case Studies

Chapter 3

Using the Release of Information as an Indicator of Government Transparency Andrew Williams* Business School, University of Western Australia

Abstract The release of economic and social data by a government provides many benefits to its citizens on a number of different levels. However, this willingness (or otherwise) to release information to the public may also be useful as a signal of the degree of political and institutional transparency. To that end, a new index is developed that has extensive coverage across countries (175) and time (1960–2005), and is based on the quantity of reported socio-economic data contained in the World Development Indicators and the International Finance Statistics databases. This chapter briefly outlines the construction of this index, and introduces a number of case studies and illustrations that highlight the importance of transparency in economic development. Keywords: Transparency, institutional quality, information asymmetries. JEL Classification: O17, O47, P14. * Mail Box M251, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA, 6009. Tel.: +61 8 6488 3859. Correspondence should be sent to Andrew Williams (E-mail: Andrew.Williams@uwa.edu.au).

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Corruption, good governance and economic development : contemporary analysis and case studies

Published on Jun 9, 2021

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Md Abu Bakar Siddique, ‎R N Ghosh Corruption, Good Governance and Economic Development adopts a non-Eurocentric approach towards good governance issues in Asia and Africa on practical and theoretical levels. Edited by R N Ghosh and M A B Siddique, this volume features contributions from distinguished scholars and policy makers who examine whether there is any correlation between the level of corruption in a country and its rate of economic change. These chapters are the outcome of major papers that were presented in conferences on the topic of “Good Governance and Economic Development” presented in Australia and India in June and December 2009 respectively, and it is hoped that they will bridge the gap in the area of good governance from a non-Western perspective in existing development literature.

Corruption, good governance and economic development : contemporary analysis and case studies

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Chapter 12 Conclusion: Good Governance and Sustainable Development

Table 11.2 The four most corrupt institutions in Indonesia

Table 11.1 Corruption remains a problem: Indonesia’s CPI records

Table 10.9 Logistic regression of the likelihood of compensation

Chapter 11 Does Governance Reform in a Democratic Transition Country Reduce the Risk of Corruption? Evidence from Indonesia

Table 10.8 Logistic regression of the likelihood of fines and subsidiary of fines

Table 10.7 Logistic regressions of the likelihood of imprisonment

Chapter 10 A Certain Uncertainty; Assessment of Court Decisions in Tackling Corruption in Indonesia

in Indonesia

Chapter 9 Comparative Crime and Corruption in Different Indian States in the Context of Economic Development

Figure 8.6 Number of cases disposed of by the Commission

Figure 8.2 Crime, corruption and economic growth

Figure 8.1 Crime and corruption cases 2003–2007

Chapter 7 Restoring Sustainable Governance in Bangladesh

Table 6.2 Ranking of top six corrupt countries based on Corruption Perception Index: 2001–2010

Chapter 8 Crime, Corruption and Economic Growth — A Study in Indian Perspective

Figure 6.1 Comparison of Bangladesh’s CPI score and GDP per capita (2001–2009

Table 6.1 Percentile rank of Bangladesh (2010

Chapter 6 Corruption in Bangladesh: Review and Analysis

Chapter 5 Governance, Institutions and Corruption: Negative Sovereignty in Africa

Chapter 4 Deliberative Democracy, Global Green Information System and Spirituality

Table 3.1 Descriptive statistics for the Release of Information Index, 1960–2005

Table 3.5 Regression analysis with economic growth as dependent variable

constraints, 2005

Table 3.3 Comparison of selected countries, Release of Information scores and GDP per capita, 2005

Chapter 3 Using the Release of Information as an Indicator of Government Transparency

Table 2.7 Some popular measures of corruption (2009

Table 2.1 CPI ranking of selected countries in 2010 Prepared by Transparency International

Table 2.5 ICRG corruption score (2011

Table 2.2 Countries most affected by Bribery: GCB 2010

Chapter 1 Introduction

Table 2.6 Opacity index rank (2009

Table 2.3 Bribe Payers Index (BPI) 2008

Chapter 2 Some Quantitative Measures of Corruption

Table 2.4 The World Bank’s Control of Corruption Index (CCI