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Limits of Good Corporate Governance in Developing Countries
This book is the first result of an international joint research project, Academic Network for the Development of Asia (ANDA). ANDA is sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the Graduate School of International Development (GSID), Nagoya University, Japan took the initiative for the network. ANDA has had 12 research groups and one of them is the governance group.
The central theme of the book is ANDA cognizance on the rising importance of governance (or good governance) for addresing the poverty incidence and in attaining economic development of developing countries, and as an agenda that is getting the consensus among international organizations and donors. This academic works and researches have produced a common understanding that good governance is weak in many developing countries when it comes to the actual implementation. We have witnessed in the last few decades that the economic development thesis of a "small government" ideology entails very limited understanding on the intricacies and priorities of government. Consequently, many governments have failed to achieve economic development and are in danger of losing its integrity and support of the people. As gradually unfolding, politics has distorted the sound economic development under the vested interests of elite influence. This understanding is the central theme of the book, "The Limits of Governance".
As Leftwich insisted, "All development is inescapably political", "Politics shapes states, and states shape development" (Leftwich 2000, States of Development: 5, 191). This book would therefore like to show that if we are to understand the real development in the developing world, it is necessary to start from the reality, especially from the political reality, without being distorted by any bias of the "principle of noninterference" international organizations and donor countries mandated to follow. It is imperative for academics and stakeholders to be wary of such kind of bias and continue to pursue independent analysis.
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