Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2006
Abstract
This paper seeks to explore the relationship between economic growth and governance performance in Asian developing economies. This exploration yields some interesting conclusions. First, notwithstanding its tremendous economic achievements, the state of governance in Asia is not stellar by international comparison. Indeed, a majority of these countries seem to suffer from a governance deficit. Second, contrary to our expectation, data do not suggest any strong positive link between governance and growth: paradoxically, countries that exhibit surpluses in governance on average grew much slower than those with deficits. The paper ends with some conjecture about this apparent paradox.
Keywords
Governance, Institutions, Growth, Asia
Discipline
Asian Studies | Growth and Development | Public Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
26
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 02-2006
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
Quibria, M. G..
Does Governance Matter? Yes, No or Maybe Some Evidence from Developing Asia. (2006). 1-26.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/866
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Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Comments
Published in KYKLOS, 2006, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6435.2006.00322.x