The government's ability to deliver inclusive growth crucially depends on the quality of governance. This paper reviews … the linkages between governance and inclusive growth, and key policies to improve governance. The policies include (1 … discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

development. The general findings are as follows: First, development in governance institutions promotes financial sector … institutions is significantly higher in terms of magnitude in the top quantiles of the economic governance distribution. The …The study examines the effect of governance quality on financial sector development using an empirical panel dataset …

towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty …