February 19, 2013

Indonesia is growing fast, so is the demand for social welfare: but is evidence keeping pace?

I have written this blog which takes a look at the way evidence is informing social welfare policy in Indonesia, arguing that Indonesia requires an (endogenous) big push to strengthen the use of research and data analysis for the design of public policies and to sustain growth. Read and comment to the blog which is […]

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What is Governance? A paper by Francis Fukuyama

Interesting paper by Francis Fukuyama for the CGD: What is Governance? Here the abstract:  This paper points to the poor state of empirical measures of the quality of states, that is, executive branches and their bureaucracies. Much of the problem is conceptual, since there is very little agreement on what constitutes high-quality government. The paper suggests

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