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Strengthening Good Governance
May 9-10, 2003
Good governance is fundamental to economic growth and political stability everywhere, especially in the troubled countries of the developing world. How to improve governance quality across the developing world is the central subject of a two day meeting on May 9-10 at the Kennedy School, sponsored by the Belfer Center’s Program on Intrastate Conflict.
Program Director Robert I. Rotberg has invited about 30 key practitioners and scholars from the World Bank, USAID, the CIA, the Millennium Challenge Account, Transparency International, and Freedom House, and universities from MIT and Harvard to Michigan, Iowa, and Stanford to discuss how best to measure governance and rank nations according to objective criteria, something now lacking. One outcome of the meeting could be a new organization to provide appropriate governance ratings, as Transparency International now does for corruption. Another outcome would be an agreement on how best to employ existing subjective measures of democracy, freedom, and stability to calibrate degrees of good or poor governance.
For information on this invitation-only event, contact Debbie West, 6-3100.
