The World Bank Institute has developed a checklist (Ref: Daniel Kaufman of the International Monetary Fund Finance and Development organization) that allows various institutions and governments to better determine what steps they need to take to both promote good governance and to reduce corruption. Both these ingredients are vital to promoting beneficial development and to achieving stronger economic growth.
But why let governments have all the fun? Why not allow regular people to assess their own governments, at the local, state or national levels? Political Calculations(TM) offers the following do-it-yourself shortened version of the World Bank Institute's good governance checklist for you to evaluate the government of your choice!
So, how did the governments that impact you score? Does it provide for full disclosure of the information listed? Does it do it fast enough? Does it let you access the information or does it create barriers to public discovery? Go back over the list, change the answers where appropriate, then judge how good the government you evaluated performed according to the following table:
| Political Calculations' Good Governance Ranking | |
|---|---|
| Score | Ranking |
| 22 - 23 | Good |
| 19 - 21 | Fair |
| 16 - 18 | Poor |
| 10 - 18 | Very Poor |
| 0 - 9 | Exceptionally Poor |
If the government scores anything less than "Good," you've got a government that could use a serious kick in the you know what. How hard depends upon how low on the scale it is....
Nick Schulz notes the link between bad governance and poverty at Tech Central Station.... (HT: Instapundit).
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