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In Spring 2000, I was invited by Louis Sabourin, former president of
the OECD Development Centre, to write a paper for the Pontifical Academy
of Social Sciences. In preparing the paper I collaborated with my OECD
colleagues Federico Bonaglia and Maurizio Bussolo, with whom we wrote a
first version of How globalization improves governance (CEPR
DP nº 2992, October 2001) in March 2001. The paper is quoted as
BBB.
From 25 to 28 April, 2001, I participated in the VII General Assembly
of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, The Vatican, devoted to ‘Globalization
and the Common Humanity: Ethical and Institutional Concerns’, 25-28 April,
2001. The paper I presented (titled Globalisation
and Institutional Change: A Development Perspective) was discussed
by Hanna Suchoka, Juan Llach, Paulus Zulu. A revised version is available
in Globalisation, Ethical and Institutional Concerns, edited by
Edmond Malinvaud and Louis Sabourin, Vatican City: Pontifical Academy
for Social Sciences, 2001, pp. 223-268 (item 263 in publication
list).
It is organized as follows
1. Introduction
1.1. Development as hope
1.2. An interdisiciplinary experience
1.3. Outline
2. Globalization and governance (G&G)
2.1. More than an acronym?
2.2. Economic pillars of democratic governance in developing countries
2.3. The G&G interaction: stylized facts
3. Globalization and corruption : a quantitative approach
3.1. Data
3.2. Analysis
3.3. Culture
4. Corruption and governance
4.1. The role of private entreprise
4.2. Argentina from amnesty to transparency, via financial freedom
5. The quest for inclusive globalization: a "Eurocentric" perspective
5.1. Peer presure and yardstick competition
5.2. Convergence and cohesion as common good
5.3. The case for flexible integration
5.4. The danger of procrastrination
6. Conclusion
Figure 1 A map of the links betweenG&G and national economic performance
Figure 2 Government size, income and openness
Figure 3 Government quality, income and openness
Figure 4 Imports, capital flows and trade lineralization links with
perceived corruption
Figure 5 European institutional architecture
Table 1 Openness and corruption: extended results
Table 2 Additional controls - historical variables
The following presentations draw on BBB (available as OECD Technical
Paper nº 181):
On 3 May, 2002 at the Faculty of Economics of the University of
Porto
On 25 January, at an international conference on Institutional
and Organisational Dynamics in the Post-Socialist Transformation, organised
by the European Association of Comparative Economic
Studies (EACES) in Amiens (this presentation did not take place because
I arrived late).
On 14 January, at Makerere University's Economic Policy Research
Centre in Kampala, Uganda.
On November 30, 2001 at Nova's SATPEG.
On November 15, at the American University of Paris.
On November 14, at a conference held in Lisbon and sponsored by
BDNET, World Business Databases.
The following presentations draw on the Vatican paper:
On July 4, at a panel of the parliamentary Committee
on European Affairs on the future of Europe (section 5).
On July 3, at the graduate course on taxation of the Lisbon
Law School
On June 8, to the central council of the European League for Economic
Co-operation gathered in Prague.
On 29-30 May, at a seminar of the
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)'s Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, in Warsaw.
On May 18, to the working group on international architecture
of the French Ministry of Finance.