"Making
Leaders".
ALPN founder/director, Dr. Michael
Isimbabi's
letter in
The Economist,
24 July 2003
African Leadership
& Progress Briefs
New
The Mo Ibrahim African Governance Index and
Leadership Prize Revisited: How Dr. Ibrahim and Other Well-Off
Africans Can Best Foster Good Governance in African Countries
Addressing Africa’s
Humiliation: 'Brain Gain'/'Brain Circulation' Diaspora Networks for
African Progress
After the 2005 G8 and UN Summits: Independent,
High-Impact Information Infrastructures and Networks for
Transparency and Accountability in African Countries
Leadership & Governance Capacity Building in
African Countries: Why and How Well-Off and Accomplished
Africans, Especially "Brain Drain" Africans, Should Proactively Take
Charge of Fostering African Progress
Research/Information Portal
New The
Mo Ibrahim African Governance Index and Leadership Prize -
Commentaries & Critiques
New Illicit
Capital Flows, Tax Evasion, and African Development
Governance - Transparency - Corruption - The Resource Curse
Brain Drain, Brain Gain,
Brain Circulation, Diaspora Africans, and Capacity Building in
Africa
African Leadership &
Governance Rankings
Mo Ibrahim Foundation Website
Mo Ibrahim Index of
African Governance
ALPN is preparing a report that will provide
ratings and rankings of African leaders based on relevant
information on leadership performance: perceptions reflected in
reports and analyses by African as well as non-African analysts and
organizations, with respect to governance, corruption, the
investment climate, political and economic freedom, social and human
development policies, etc., such as:
African Governance Report
- Economic Commission for Africa
Bertelsmann Transformation Index
Economic Freedom of the World Reports
Euromoney Institutional
Investor PLC
- Euromoney Country Risk
Surveys - Institutional Investor
Country Credit Ratings
Freedom in the World - Freedom House
Global Integrity Index / Country
Reports
Global
Witness
Mo Ibrahim Index of
African Governance
Index of Economic Freedom
Millennium Challenge Corporation - Selection
Criteria
Publish What You Pay
Transparency International -
TI Corruption Perceptions Index -
Global Corruption Report
Worldwide Governance Indicators - World Bank
Related Literature:
UN Economic
Commission for Africa
African Development Forum IV: Governance for a Progressing Africa.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11–15
October, 2004. Economic Commission for Africa
(ECA), in partnership with
the African Development Bank (ADB) and the African Union (AU).
Governance Heads Agenda at Fourth African Development Forum.
Press Release. UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
24
September 2004.
Africa Governance Report 2003
Governance indicators for African countries.
Forthcoming report of the UN Economic Commission for Africa
(ECA)'s project: Measuring and Monitoring Progress Towards Good
Governance in Africa.
Good Governance and Development in Africa: A Critical
Nexus. K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary, UN
Economic Commission for Africa. 5th Andrew Young Lecture, Africa
Society of the National Summit on Africa, Washington, D.C. 18
February 2004.
The UNECA and Good Governance in
Africa. United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa. Harvard International Development
Conference, 4-5 April 2003
Measuring and Monitoring Progress in Good Governance in
Africa - Africa Governance Report (AGR). United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA).
Presentation at the Seminar on Statistics and Human Rights,
Brussels, Belgium. 27-29 November 2002.
Developing
Africa's economy: Doing
the sums on Africa. Jeffrey Sachs. The Economist. 20 May
2004.
Countries at the Crossroads: A Survey of Democratic
Governance - 2004 . Freedom
House. Evaluates performance in 30 key countries that are at a
crossroads in determining their political future.
The Imperative of Good, Democratic
Governance. May 24, 2004. Larry
Diamond. Center for International Private Enterprise
Democratic Governance: The Key to Economic and
Political Reform. January 22,
2004. Economic Reform Issue Paper. Center for International Private
Enterprise
Governance Indicators, Aid Allocation, and the Millennium
Challenge Account Daniel
Kaufmann and Aart Kraay. World Bank Discussion Paper, December
2002.
The Roots of Africa's Leadership
Deficit. Robert I. Rotberg. Compass: A Journal
of Leadership. October 2003. Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University.
Rating Africa. 2 December 2002.
Robert I. Rotberg.
Boston Globe.
A Yardstick for the Best and Worst of Africa.
25 November 2002.
Robert I. Rotberg.
Financial Times.
Good Governance
Rankings: The Art of Measurement. Marie Besancon. World Peace Foundation,
September 2003. Appendix provides a listing of several sources of
Governance-related ratings.
Governing Nigeria: Continuing Issues after the
Election. Deborah
West. World Peace Foundation, June 2003.
Who is For a Leadership Code with
Teeth? Yaw Saffu, Institute of
Economic Affairs (Ghana). August 30, 2003. Center for International
Private Enterprise
Institutionalized Corruption: An Instrument of
Governance in the Middle East and North Africa?. Jawad Rachami. July 31, 2003. Center for
International Private Enterprise
Political
and Economic Freedoms and Prosperity. Richard Roll and John Talbott. UCLA. June 19,
2003.
Additional listings of data sources, articles, reports, and
other documents on leadership performance are provided in other
sections of this site:
Perspectives on African Leadership, NEPAD, the African
Union, Etc.
Governance - Transparency - Corruption - Natural
Resource Management - The Resource Curse
African Progress: Afro-Pessimism
Redux?
The African Investment Environment & Capital
Flows
African Countries & the Millennium Challenge Account
(MCA)
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