Sierra Leone, which I am visiting this week and where a team from my Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) is helping to attract investment and strengthen the capacity of the government, is one such country.
The result is a sclerotic company, unable to create economic value (see my Corporate Governance posting).
This emerges from the Resource Governance Index, which my organization, Revenue Watch Institute, released earlier this week.
("He and I share many positions, but his embrace of an unrelenting partisan mind-set is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings results for Hoosiers in the Senate").
He and I share many positions, but his embrace of an unrelenting partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings results for Hoosiers in the Senate.
Mr. Lugar, for 35 years a bedrock of sensible bipartisanship on foreign policy, released an elegant farewell letter today saying that Mr. Mourdock's "embrace of an unrelenting partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings results for Hoosiers in the Senate".
After that there will need to be a massive focus on rebuilding infrastructure that has been destroyed either my mis-governance or through Boko Haram attacks.
Yes, I am young and lacking in experience, but I am exercising my constitutional right to be involved in my country's governance because I would like to be part of the solution, not merely complain about the problem.
Lord Myners said: "The proposals do not go as far as I recommended in my review of governance but they represent significant progress in the right direction.
I also look forward to bringing my experience in governance and compliance to bear on the important reform work that is already under way at Fifa".
