Meritocracy key to good governance

Democracy, according to Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore's top former diplomat and current dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 'is not the key variable which determines whether a country has good governance or not. The key variable which determines whether a country has good governance is meritocracy'.


Mr Mahbubani was addressing a group of young emerging public sector leaders from Asia and Europe, in a speech which focused on the principles of good governance in a domestic and international context.

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