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Broome, André (2022) Gaming country rankings : consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks. Public Administration, 100 (3). pp. 554-570. doi:10.1111/PADM.12809 ISSN 0033-3298.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/PADM.12809
Abstract
This article explores how for-profit consultancies mediate knowledge about global benchmarks in developing countries. Drawing on the case of the Ease of Doing Business rankings, published annually by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation between 2005 and 2019, it examines the role consultancies play as knowledge brokers connecting global benchmarks produced by intergovernmental organizations to regulatory reform projects undertaken by national public administrations. The article shows how consultancies contracted to implement business enabling environment projects by the United States Agency for International Development advised national policymakers on how to design reforms to improve their country’s ranking status. Lending weight to criticisms that shifts in country rankings may be misleading as an indicator of changes in regulatory quality, the findings suggest that consultancies have leveraged benchmarks to perpetuate demand for their own expertise rather than to improve the evidence base for aid allocation and the evaluation of development projects.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Business enterprises, Economic development, International Finance Corporation, United States. Agency for International Development, World Bank | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Public Administration | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0033-3298 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 100 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 554-570 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/PADM.12809 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Broome, A. (2021). Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks. Public Administration, 1– 17., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/PADM.12809. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 November 2021 | ||||||||
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