{"id":404,"date":"2012-03-22T18:33:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rulesofreason.wordpress.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2012-03-22T18:33:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:33:04","slug":"what-to-do-about-improving-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"What to do about improving governance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a> is a link to my interview for Gulan Magazine<\/a> discussing how to establish good governance and the role of formal institutions.<\/p>\n

“Even if institutions are working in Western Europe or in the US and they are imported to the developing countries, there is no guarantee that they would produce the same outcome because institutions are embedded (they function) in a certain environment and when they are transferred to other countries there is no guarantee that they would work. I have some experience observing from very close the institutional transfer recommended by the western advisers to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe – these countries were consolidating their democracies and when they were building their market economies – some of the imported institutions worked and some of the institutions that were suggested by western experts were actually counterproductive. Again, importing institutions can only do that much – it really depends on the local people to make them work. There are some institutions that obviously benefit the society in many different contexts no matter the country, developing or developed. For example stable civil service.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a link<\/a> to Mark Twain on why you shouldn’t give interviews \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a link to my interview for Gulan Magazine discussing how to establish good governance and the role of formal institutions. “Even if institutions are working in Western Europe or in the US and they are imported to the developing countries, there is no guarantee that they would produce the same outcome because institutions are embedded (they function) in a certain environment and when they are transferred to other countries there is no guarantee that they would work. I have some experience observing from very close the institutional transfer recommended by the western advisers to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe – these countries were consolidating their democracies and when they were building their market economies – some of the imported institutions worked and some of the institutions that were suggested by western experts were actually counterproductive. Again, importing institutions can only do that much – it really depends on the local people to make them work. There are some institutions that obviously benefit the society in many different contexts no matter the country, developing or developed. For example stable civil service.” Here is a link to Mark Twain on why you shouldn’t give interviews \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[273,305,310],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-6w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":457,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=457","url_meta":{"origin":404,"position":0},"title":"Inclusive institutions and economic development","date":"May 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Francis Fukuyama reviews Why Nations Fail, the new book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, at his blog. The review is fairly critical. 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