Local Government Performance and Economic Reform in South and Southeast Asia

April 2, 2008

**THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL**

The Asia Foundation has pioneered the design and use of Economic Governance Indices (EGI) as an important, recognized asset used by local governments to determine how best to encourage private sector development in Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. For its part, several of the Center for Global Development’s research initiatives have used indicators to effect policy change: our Commitment to Development Index ranks 21 rich countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poor countries and CGD fellows have worked with the Brookings Institution to construct an index on state weakness.

This lunch discussion will focus on the EGI, which provides comparative data on provincial governance and its impact on economies. By showing government leaders the best practices found in their own countries, policymakers begin to understand how improved governance can invigorate the private sector and lead to increased economic development.

Center for Global Development and The Asia Foundation present
Local Government Performance and Economic Reform 
in South and Southeast Asia

featuring
Veronique Salze Lozac'h
Regional Economic Director, The Asia Foundation, Cambodia

Eddy Malesky
Harvard Academy Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Neil McCulloch
Director for Economic Programs, The Asia Foundation, Jakarta

and
Bruce Tolentino
Director, Economic Reform and Development Program, The Asia Foundation, San Francisco

Moderated by
Stewart Patrick
Research Fellow, Center for Global Development

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
12:00pm--2:00 pm
Lunch will be served

at
Center for Global Development
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC 20036