Information and Communication Technology today has become an indispensable part in our lives, gaining wide application in human activities. This is due to the fact that, its use is less expensive, more secure, and allows speedy information transmission and access. It serves as a good base for the development and success of today’s relatively young technologies. It has relieved people of manual ...

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...

mashhad municipality faces several governance issues including transparency, providing information, justice, accountability and lack of satisfaction on the part of citizens. the necessity of researching these issues and analyzing the current situation of governance in mashhad cannot be denied. this study opens a new horizon in this regard by analyzing the indicators of good governance (particip...

• 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...

  This is undoubtedly recognized that economic performance for each country over time is related to a great extent to its political, institutional and legal environment. In fact, these institutions and policies are that determine the governance quality.   In a panel data study, we applied newly developed indices to examine the effects of good governance on FDI for fifteen middle-income countri...

2. In recent years the World Bank has been a prolific producer of documentation discussing governance as a general tool in the international development process. However, during the course of the Twelfth Replenishment discussions for the International Development Association (IDA12), the concept of good governance was specifically mentioned in the context of institutional assessment criteria. T...

Governance is a way of exercising power in economic and social resource management of a country. Good governance criteria have different weights and relation with regard to the conditions and information of any country. This study is a descriptive survey and has been carried out to calculate the coefficients and weights of each indicator of good governance in Mena countries and identification o...