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Dr. Daniel Kaufmann speaks about corruption
By Emma Kantrowitz
On March 9, 2011
The International Economics and Finance Society hosted Dr. Daniel Kaufmann, a
leader in world reform who spent years directing the work on governance at the World
Bank, Thursday evening for a presentation on corruption and governance around the
world.
"I was never happy when I had to be a researcher and stay in the office. I always felt
it was important to roll up my sleeves and go to the country and work with the people,"
said Kaufmann, a senior scholar at the Brookings Institute.
Through his travels with the World Bank, Kaufmann studied and empirically
measured the corruption and rule of law of suffering countries. He helped put together a
database that can "measure these issues over time in a systematic way using governance."
According to Kaufmann, with these measurements, "we can see the whole spectrum
across the world with quality of rule of law and control of corruption."
Baawaah Amoh, a junior accounting major, said, "corruption is a symptom of a poor
government because even if the government's working corruption can still be around, it
just becomes more apparent as the government gets worse."
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