Human Development in South Asia 1999 The Crisis of Governance

by ul Haq, Mahbub

• ISBN13: 9780195793055
• ISBN10: 0195793056
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Human Development in South Asia 1999 analyses the governance issues from the perspective of political, economic, social and civic dimensions, provides and in-depth analysis of the phenomenonf of corruption, and advocates a concrete and realistic reform agenda necessary for promoting 'human governance' in the region. In this regard, the report introduces a new index that ranks countries based on their performance in the spheres of economic, political and civic governance.

Table of Contents

Overview	1	(10)
The State of Human Development	11	(16)
Human Deprivation	12	(1)
Poverty profile of South Asia	13	(4)
Human security under siege	17	(5)
Globalization and the East Asian crisis	22	(5)
Humane Governance---A Conceptual Framework	27	(14)
Humane governance: conceptual framework	28	(3)
Good political governance	31	(2)
Good economic governance	33	(2)
Good civic governance	35	(2)
Measuring humane governance	37	(1)
South Asia's crisis of governance	38	(1)
Chapter annex---Humane Governance Index	39	(2)
Political Dimensions of Governance	41	(30)
Are people sovereign?	42	(5)
Part I. Who Governs South Asia?	47	(4)
The reality of decentralized governance	51	(5)
Part II. The Failure of Institutions	56	(1)
The legislatures	57	(5)
The executive: civil service	62	(3)
The judiciary	65	(4)
In search of good political governance	69	(2)
Economic Dimensions of Governance	71	(24)
The giant's robe	72	(5)
The fiscal dilemma	77	(2)
Origins of the crisis	79	(7)
The development wasteland	86	(3)
The burden of adjustment	89	(6)
The Corruption Menace	95	(16)
What price corruption?	97	(4)
The corruption equation	101	(4)
Entrenched corruption	105	(1)
An anti-corruption revolution	105	(6)
Social Costs of Poor Governance	111	(16)
Life, liberty, and exclusion	113	(3)
Governance that excludes	116	(11)
Governance by Civil Society	127	(16)
Civil society for good civic governance	128	(3)
The primacy of human rights	131	(2)
Opening spaces for civic engagement	133	(10)
In Quest of Humane Governance	143	(14)
An agenda for humane governance	144	(10)
Facilitating change	154	(3)
Technical Notes	157	(8)
Technical Annex A: Technical Note on the Computation of HGI	157	(2)
Technical Annex B: Citizens' Survey	159	(4)
Technical Annex C: Distance Index	163	(2)
Bibliographic Note	165	(1)
References	166	(13)
Profile of Governance in South Asia	179	(12)
Human Development Indicators for South Asia	191	(15)
Key to Indicators	206