Professor
Gives Governance Expertise to Sustain India’s
Economic Growth
The Indian economy is expected
to grow in the range of 7 to 8 percent this year,
according to a government
survey. Over the past ten years, the country’s
economy has become Asia's third largest behind Japan
and China. But unless more steps are taken to improve
public governance, the boom may turn to bust, according
to Public Policy Professor Roger Stough.
Stough
hopes AIMA's new Center for Public Governance
will help India’s growth.
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Driven
by growing evidence that public governance
and related institutional
barriers stand at the forefront of a
developing country’s ability to sustain an economic “takeoff,” Stough
and a team of SPP colleagues have assisted
the All India Management Association
(AIMA) with
its creation of a Center for Public Governance.
The center, which opened in December,
conducts research and provides governance-related
training for public officials and citizens. Stough
hopes that the center will help India reach
and sustain the double-digit growth rates that
have
characterized development takeoffs of other
Asian countries (such as Korea, Taiwan, Singapore
and
China) over the past three decades. It will
seek to achieve this goal by addressing some
of India’s
most pressing governance issues. |
Dimensions
or measures of governance include social, economic
and political stability
and issues of violence;
civil society, accountability; efficiency; regulatory
burden, rule of law; and graft, bribery and corruption,
according to Stough. India scores high on political
stability and rule of law but lower on public sector
efficiency, regulatory burden and corruption dimensions. “This
center is expected to address these core institutional
and governance issues that are slowing India development,” Stough
said.
At the kickoff
of the Delhi-based center on December 10, Stough
gave the keynote address. On the following day, Stough,
Dean Kingsley Haynes and SPP Professor Tojo Thatchnekery
led a variety of workshops and panel discussions.
The Mason team will continue to provide research
and policy analysis support as the center grows to
serve the entire country.
AIMA was created
in 1957 as the national Apex Body of the management
profession with active support of the Government
of India and the corporate sector. It is represented
on a number of policy-making committees of the Government
of India, the Indian Institutes of Management and
professional bodies. |
