tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273302883043906742.post891636344489712246..comments2023-09-02T10:14:53.094-04:00Comments on Recreating Eden: Memo to Philosopher Kings and Great Leaders: If You Want to Get Things Done, Cut the CorruptionMary Soderstromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09265519935852076762noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273302883043906742.post-58859397903588823372010-07-25T09:56:38.530-04:002010-07-25T09:56:38.530-04:00Very interesting questions. I suspect the large i...Very interesting questions. I suspect the large investment by guilty-feeling internatioinal agencies helped--not just in the usual aid programs but also in setting up an entirely new legal system. See: http://www.cicr.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/57JNZA among other articles.<br /><br />The mere presence of women parlimenarians doesn't mean much: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm<br /><br />While Rwanda leads the pack with about 56 per cent women parlimentarians, Angola, Mozambique and Burundi all have 30 per cent or more women parlimentarians. In comparison, Canada has 22 per cent and the USA has 16.8 per cent. <br /><br />Hard to make extrapolations about corruption from that.Mary Soderstromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09265519935852076762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273302883043906742.post-10665553986723059722010-07-24T08:36:21.271-04:002010-07-24T08:36:21.271-04:00I'd be most interested in the reason for the d...I'd be most interested in the reason for the dramatic difference between Rwanda and Burundi, two tiny nations with very similar cultural backgrounds and a similar traumatic experience in the 1990s (though the genocide went further in Rwanda - there were horrible massacres in Burundi too). <br /><br />Was it because the State and civil society had to be so thoroughly rebuilt in Rwanda? And while I certainly don't want to get into so-called essentialist feminism (women being fundamentally more honest or some such rot) could the gender parity brought in post-genocide and the important role women survivors played in rebuilding Rwanda have anything to do with such a dramatic difference?lagatta à montréalhttp://www.lemab.canoreply@blogger.com