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Unsurprisingly, currency arbitrage has propelled Venezuela to the top ranks of global corruption indicators.
Other indicators, however, paint a different picture.
As Charles Morris wrote: “Intellectuals are reliable lagging indicators, near-infallible guides to what used to be true.”
It has been produced for half a century, and, according to a poll conducted by Reuters, it is Europe’s most prominent business indicator, outperforming even official EU indicators.
All indicators demonstrate that we are on the right path.
Discussing a wider set of indicators – one that better reflects fundamental goals – is the place to start.
Overcoming Democratic MyopiaNEW YORK – Despite positive indicators, the global economy remains beset with risks.
But this financial market buoyancy is at odds with political events and real economic indicators.
Indicators for the eurozone are even worse.
The socioeconomic indicators for Ortega’s Nicaragua are much less flattering.
Indicators of equality have not improved substantially, either.
I suspect that the indicators in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, or Chile will not be any more hopeful, and that their governments’promises, too, have not been kept.
Extinct or endangered species are indicators of a much bigger problem.
In other words, we are producing and consuming much more than our economic indicators suggest – and the creators of many of those products are not being adequately compensated.
On the contrary, most surveys and hard economic indicators point to a strong upswing, with the one country that is in really serious trouble, Greece, representing only 3% of the area’s GDP.
The US government even acknowledged that, without a coal-fired power plant, South Africa’s “economic recovery will suffer, adversely impacting electrification, job creation, and social indicators.”
Indeed, judging by several key indicators, progress toward democracy in China has stalled, despite unprecedented economic prosperity and personal freedom.
Is it necessary to go further just because the indicators linked to national origin are not enough to identify discrimination – especially indirect discrimination – based on ethnic grounds?
Doing Business – the brainchild of, among others, my Harvard colleague Andrei Shleifer and Simeon Djankov, a World Bank staffer who later became Bulgaria’s finance minister – measures such indicators as the time and cost required to register a business, pay taxes, trade across borders, obtain a loan, get a construction license, or enforce a contract.
The Doing Business project calculates dozens of separate indicators that are then averaged into a single number.
As with all numerical indicators that try to express a very complex reality, there is always room for improvement.
I, for one, find the underlying indicators more informative than the average.
A single problem can be fatal, even if other indicators are strong.
The indicators do not penalize a country that cheaply and expeditiously authorizes shoddy construction projects, dangerous imports, or abusive labor practices.
This should be reason enough to continue the report; indeed, the fact that China has the world’s highest investment rate suggests that, despite the Doing Business indicators, it is possible to do business there.
They found that this indicator correlated very well with many other governance indicators.
For example, to measure the difficulty of dealing with licenses, Doing Business’s indicators examine the burden of obtaining a permit to build a warehouse.
But firms must deal with licenses in many areas – such as medical devices and drugs, radio stations, mines, bars, banks, insurance companies, airlines, and taxis – that are not included in the report’s indicators, even though they may be major obstacles to doing business.
Moreover, in the Atlas of Economic Complexity, my co-authors and I show that these indicators are weakly related, if at all, to economic growth.
But the key is to improve on the areas that matter, regardless of whether existing global indicators cover them.
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