Does Transparency Improve Governance?

Transparency and Corporate Governance∗

An objective of many proposed corporate governance reforms is increased transparency. This goal has been relatively uncontroversial, as most observers believe increased transparency to be unambiguously good. We argue that, from a corporate governance perspective, there are likely to be both costs and benefits to increased transparency, leading to an optimum level beyond which increasing transpa...

Transparency and Earth System Governance

Introduction What can transparency contribute to those seeking to improve the effectiveness of earth system governance? This article distinguishes among various policies designed to promote transparency based on the mechanisms by which they influence behavior and, thereby, seeks to identify the conditions under which we might expect them to promote socially desirable behavior and to discourage ...

Governance and transparency at PEPFAR.

Does better local governance improve district growth performance in Indonesia?

A large literature suggests that countries with better governance have higher growth rates. We explore whether this is also true at the sub-national level in Indonesia. We exploit a new dataset of firm perceptions of the quality of economic governance in 243 districts across Indonesia to estimate the impact of nine different dimensions of governance on district growth. Surprisingly, we find rel...

Health Financing: Does Governance Quality Matter?

Abstract T his paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilisng panel data analysis, namely system...