Mismeasuring corruption lets rich countries off the hook

WASHINGTON, DC — “In an increasingly performance-oriented society, metrics matter. What we measure affects what we do,” argued the 2008 report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance. “If we have the wrong metrics, we will strive for the wrong things.”The Commission was challenging the primacy of GDP as the metric of development. But the same observation

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