Unbundling Governance

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Unbundling Governance

• Hossain Zillur Rahman
• Power and Participation Research Centre

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Whose concerns

• Policy elites
• growth acceleration, threat mitigation
• Corporate elites/ International capital
• policy stability, costs of business
• Citizens/Poor
• everyday rights/needs, development results

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Choosing Indicators

• Governance Demand map
• Three dimensions of quality
• Institutional quality
• Interface quality
• Civic quality
• Importance of outcome-orientation

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PPRC Indicators

• Institutional Quality
• - Government effectiveness
• - Quality of elected leadership
• - Opportunity
• Interface Quality
• - Trust and Expectations
• - Voice
• - Hoirani/Harassment
• - Insecurity
• Civic Quality
• - Attitudes and Values
• - Aspirations
• - Optimism

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2006 Outcomes Opportunity Index

• Strongest sense of opportunity
• - education
• - physical mobility
• - easy access to market for purchase
• - networking
• Poorest sense of opportunity
• - Quality lifestyle
• - easy entry into business

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2006 Benchmarks Citizen-Service Interface

• Service of popn. Interacting
• Transport 99.4
• Market-places 98.6
• Health service 95.7
• Electricity 80.3
• Public education 70.6
• Water 57.9
• Private education 53.6
• Police 51.6
• Public banks 50.7
• Mobile phone 48.6
• House rental 39.1
• NGO service 38.4
• Private banks 25.4

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2006 BenchmarksUnbundling Hoirani

• Inadequacy of service
• Ill behavior
• Bribe
• Time loss
• Poor service quality
• High economic costs
• Entry barriers
• Lack of ethics

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2006 BenchmarksClimate of Social opinions

• Attitude towards Womens role strong approval
• Higher education 90.3
• Income-earning 81.0
• Participation in public meetings 50.8
• Participation in shalish 40.0
• Participation in politics 46.7
• Sports and cultural activities 50.2
• Removal of wage disparity 73.8
• Reserve seat for women in public
  transport 81.2

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2006 BenchmarksOptimism Index

• Issue pessimistic
• Quality improvement in education 4.0
• Bright future for women 6.2
• Personal future 17.5
• Local development 19.9
• Countrys future 39.6

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2006 BenchmarksUnbundling Aspiration

• Minimalist aspirations
• - Basics (1st ranked)
• - Security ( 3rd ranked)
• Upward aspirations
• - livelihood graduation (2nd ranked)
• - service demand (4th ranked)
• - social role (5th ranked)
• - personality enhancement (6th ranked)
• Implications for governance discourse
• - Importance of opportunity
• - demand pressure necessitating service response
• - civic engagement

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Solution Approaches

• Trap of feel-good solutions
• Boundary conditions
• - absolutist inclinations
• - livelihood concerns
• Structural vs. behavioral solutions
• Micro governance as a key window
• Balancing opportunity and regulation