Visualizing Governance: the World Freedom Atlas
This past November saw the launch of the World Freedom Atlas by Zachary F. Johnson, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. The project started as a final thesis for a geography class. In the words of its author, the Atlas is "an interactive geovisualisation tool for world statistics, designed for social scientists, journalists, NGO/IGO workers and others who wish to have a better understanding of issues of freedom, democracy, human rights and good governance."
It draws on no less than 300 cross-country indicators compiled by the Quality of Governance Institute in Goteborg, Sweden. The World Governance Indicators, which are among the 42 datasets featured in the Atlas, aggregate many of these same indicators. A welcome addition to the interactive tools to visualize global governance, the World Freedom Atlas is also a testimony to the potential of data as a tool for advocacy.
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Corruption has always been a
Corruption has always been a factor on hindering growth, whether in nations, corporations, organizations, etc. Government corruption is even worse, as international businesses tend to avoid these governments.
Public - private partnerships
Combined national strategies to yield that extra indece for FDI by the private sector often draws big players for Public private partnerships. The result is often continued surveilence and monitoring with evaluation techniques to foster compliance of corporate activities to public investment infrastructure development programmes. Lots of examples in Africa where public-private partnerships in the economic development programmes are achieving significant progress. The challenge of self reporting economies if Public finance in governance and management systems for effective control and allocation of public assets for reinvestment for public gain and consumption of benefits at low prices.
In South Africa the Rural Urban renewal developmnet programmes has netted a total of 20% of the the initial start up project capital of 9.0 Billion Rands
Quite agree with the
Quite agree with the previous comment.
Some thoughts
I would also add, that colonialism was supported with some false racial doctrines. Which explained that some races were superior than the others. And they were so popular, that they still can not be rooted out from our minds:(((
Great
very nice post thanks!!!
Corruption
Because the query is addressed to corruption in "your country" the rating of Customs, with other budgetary agencies, at 0% may overlook the experience of important external constituents, including international traders and carriers.
A glance at such sobering analyses as Irene Hors' OECD study of Customs corruption in Pakistan, Bolivia and the Philippines or the Bank's own look at Uganda in the de Wulf/Sokol Customs Case Studies illustrates the size of this apparent sensitivity gap.
good governance
First of all we have to differentiate between good governance and democracy. Good governance is a camouflage many times used by authorative regimes, and therefore negates the basic essence of democracy.
This is always claimed that good governance brings prosperity. this is also half truth. and various world indicators shows that the good governance caused extreme misery for many area of the world.
The will of people and their right to make the rules for themselves is the only recipe for the good govenance and ultimate prosperity for the nations