Good governance

Good Governance and Urban Management

The pattern of governance is a new topic which has found its traces in urban management, and has the features of continuance, decision making, justice, efficiency, effectiveness, clarity, accountability, partnership, and immunity, all of which are interdependent and empowering. According to this pattern, decisions about civil affairs are taken with the cooperation of government, private sectors...

Good Governance

Governance of ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC) is one of the four major challenges addressed by OpenNESS. The term governance indicates a mode of steering that differs from state-centred top-down command-and-control approaches, as it is marked by the inclusion of a variety of actors or stakeholders beyond the state, but does not necessarily exclude any involvement of actors repr...

Governance and Good Governance: A Conceptual Perspective

Good governance has been the subject of theoretical and pragmatic discourses during the last three decades. Recently the indeterminate terms "Governance" and Good governance are being gradually used, in the literature of political science, administrative sciences and development studies. It is being increasingly recognized that Good governance is legitimate, accountable and effective ways of ob...

Requirements for Good Governance

• Since the crisis, most East Asian governments recognise the urgent need to strengthen regulations to increase corporate transparency and enforce better treatment of outside investors; this is essential to support regional economies transition from a relationship to a rules based business model and enable their return to robust growth. • In the region's most advanced economies, corporate discl...

Good Governance and Poverty