Original scientific paper
Institutional Development and Good Governance Assessments in Croatia: An Extended Focus on Corruption
Aralica Zoran
; Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia.
Budak Jelena
; Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia.
Abstract
This paper examines good governance assessments in Croatia and in selected CEE countries. It aims to confirm that the quality of governance should he evaluated by considering phenomena-or country-specitic institutional environment. Based on the analysis of good governance indicators slight improvements in all dimensions of good governance for all of the selected countries were observed in a period from 1990 to 2002. Using constructed aggregate Good Governance Index (GGI) and Human Development Index (HDI) tested the general assumption that good governance is connected to economic and social development. Spearman rank order correlation analysis confirmed that for all selected countries in 2000 there was a high positive correlation between their GGI rank and HDI rank. The correlation matrix for CEE countries in 2000 confirmed our hypothesis that government effectiveness; regulatory quality and rule of Iaw positively correlate with control of corruption. The paper concludes that research on interdependencies among good governance and development indicators as well as on determinants and effects of good governance dimensions remains to be done for Croatia.
Keywords
institutional development; good governance; human development; correlation; coruption
Hrčak ID:
101270
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Publication date:
1.12.2004.
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