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Burnell & Randall: Politics in the Developing World 2e

Chapter 15

  1. Is globalization leading all developing world governments to adopt very similar policies for economic management and social development?

  2. Why should developing countries be expected to practice good governance?

  3.  Does aid conditionality work as an instrument for influencing developing country institutions and policies, and if not, why not?

  4. Can assessments of the instrument of aid conditionality be separated from assessment of the institutional and policy conditions that conditionality has been used to convey.

  5. Why do the exhortations that aid donors make to developing world governments about improving their governance so often include statements about combating corruption?

  6. How can corruption be substantially reduced in those countries where it is claimed to be rife?  

  7. Is good governance much more than a device to make developing world governments more accountable to the international financial institutions and global capitalism more generally?

  8. Does the developing world show that good economic governance and good political governance need not go together, and how do you explain the combinations that you find there?

  9. Explain and critically review the governance indicators used by Kaufmann and Mastruzzi in their World Bank sponsored research.

  10. With reference to the developing world, discuss the difference  between government and governance.