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International
Tom's international contributions have included work for the Instituto Libertad y Democracia (ILD) of Lima, Peru; the Home Mortgage Bank of Trinidad and Tobago; the U.S. Agency for International Development for the State Property Fund of the Kyrgyz Republic; and a study of the European Patent Office as part of a study of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
In 1998, Tom was invited to present two papers on corporate governance to the China Institute for Reform and Development (Hainan), and in 2004 he was part of an OECD delegation to advise the Chinese government on reforming the delivery of public services.
- “Reform of Public Service Delivery: Are There Lessons From the United States?”
, Comparative Studies, Beijing, Vol. 12, 2004 - "Assessing Institutional Development: The Legal Framework That Shapes Public Institutions," in New Directions in Program Evaluation, World Bank (1995)
Additional writings include Tom's third-year paper at the Harvard Law School, which analyzed “The Reception of Western Law by a Peasant Society: Lessons to be Learned from the Burmese Experience.”
While economists stress that developing legal systems must include property rights, enforceability of contracts, and an independent judicial system, the point of the Burmese experience is that a legal system will function only if it has the essential characteristic of legitimacy in the eyes of the people to whom the legal system is supposed to apply.
The following article is also relevant:
- "Conflict in Laos: The Village Point of View," Asian Survey, Fall 1968