Guyana — among the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere — faces the whirlwind task of simultaneously trying to install an effective regulatory regime that enables development and combats corruption and creating mechanisms for mitigating the impact of oil investment on a fragile extraction-based economy, all while managing the expectations of its people.
In a country that generally scores low on international measures of corruption, the highest levels of government must set the lead for the rest of the population as a whole.
