Corporate governance 2005

Many emerging-market companies are making concerted efforts to improve levels of transparency and disclosure to shareholders. Prashant Rao looks at how regulators and supranational agencies are helping to promote better corporate governance, and Euromoney reveals the best companies in the field across emerging markets. Research by Paul Pedzinski.

IN NOVEMBER 1864, Abraham Lincoln wrote: “I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country… Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow… God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.”