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Oct 2015
12m 58s

Corruption Matters; Good Governance Pays

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In development circles, governance is often a code word for corruption. But Daniel Kaufmann, president of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, says governance is much broader. In this podcast, Kaufmann talks about how good governance can actually triple a country's per capita income. 
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