Introduction | p. 1 |
The Role of Government Performance in East Asia | p. 7 |
Public-private cooperation | p. 8 |
The bureaucracy | p. 12 |
Rule of law | p. 15 |
Corruption | p. 17 |
Political stability | p. 21 |
Measuring the Quality of Government Performance | p. 23 |
How to measure quality | p. 23 |
Main data sources | p. 26 |
Indicators | p. 28 |
Empirical strategy | p. 36 |
Limitations of subjective indicators | p. 38 |
Government Performance and Growth: What the Data Say | p. 43 |
Public-private cooperation | p. 43 |
The bureaucracy | p. 47 |
Rule of law | p. 49 |
Low levels of corruption | p. 53 |
Political system and political instability | p. 57 |
Summary of results | p. 61 |
Scorecards for East Asian Countries | p. 63 |
The scorecard | p. 63 |
Scores for Thailand | p. 66 |
Scores for Malaysia | p. 69 |
Scores for South Korea | p. 71 |
Scores for Singapore | p. 75 |
Scores for Hong Kong | p. 77 |
Growth in two city-states: Hong Kong and Singapore | p. 79 |
Expectations of future developments | p. 82 |
Overall rankings | p. 85 |
Causes and Consequences of Corruption | p. 89 |
Consequences of corruption: A second look | p. 90 |
Types of corruption | p. 95 |
Causes of corruption: A review of the literature | p. 100 |
Causes of corruption: The empirical evidence | p. 105 |
Crony capitalism and corruption | p. 111 |
Did corruption cause the Asian financial crisis? | p. 114 |
Conclusions | p. 119 |
Appendices | p. 121 |
I: Data description and sources | p. 123 |
Results of extended growth regressions | p. 129 |
Country coverage in the three main data sets | p. 135 |
Country rankings | p. 139 |
Corruption and "crony capitalism" | p. 151 |
References | p. 155 |
Index | p. 163 |
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