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Theoretical Perspective of Local Government - Literature Review
Haqu, Adnan ul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
“This research paper discusses the basic fundamentals of local government in theoretical perspective. The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate the conceptual framework of local government with its significance in the modern era. Various approaches of local government are discussed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260087
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El desarrollo institucional en el contexto de la ineficacia de la ayuda: ¿qué podemos hacer?
Bandeira, Pablo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
What is institutional development? How important is it? Which institutions promote development? Why they are not naturally implemented? How can we support them? These are the questions that this article tries to answer, based on the recent international literature on the topic, within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836586
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Works on market supervision and shar'iyah governance (al-hisbah wa al-siyasah al-shar'iyah) by the sixteenth century scholars
Islahi, Abdul Azim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In Islamic tradition two sets of works – al-hisbah and al-siyasah al-shar‛iyah – appeared that proved to be a rich source of economic thought of past Muslim thinkers. Works related to al-hisbah generally discussed socio-economic control, moral and market supervision, prevention of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527372
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Compatibility of the Content of Bachelor Programs in Public Administration with the Needs of Good Governance - A Comparison: EU-US
Matei, Lucica; Matei, Ani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Higher education in most European states is subject to a complex process of adaptation to the requirements formulated by Bologna process. For some states, such as Romania, this process assumes core restructuring of the content, aimed to its compatibility with that from prestigious European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574630
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Improving the quality of governance in Poland through performance based budgeting
Hardt, Lukasz; de Jong, Maarten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper asks whether performance based budgeting (PBB) can serve as a tool for implementing the rules of good governance in Polish state administration. The authors put emphasis on analyzing de facto mechanisms of PBB implementation rather than focusing only on de jure ones. In other words,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110544
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State of Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.
Ahmad, Sayed Javed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper discusses the problems and issues on the political failures in Bangladesh as well as identifies some possible solutions. The approach here is analytical mostly reviewing current news, reports and other related materials. A comparative study is also done between the present and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623480
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Decentralized Local Governance In Fragile States: Learning From Iraq
Brinkerhoff, Derick W.; Johnson, Ronald W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This article examines the role that local governance plays in creating an effective state and in building constructive state—society relations. Reconstruction efforts in fragile, post-conflict states have focused largely on central government, yet decentralized local authorities offer a number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560074
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Polity qualities: how governance affects poverty
Moore, Mick; Leavy, Jennifer; Houtzager, Peter; White, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
For a large sample of 61 developing countries, over the period 1980-95, we calculate a measure of the efficiency with which national political-economic systems convert a given volume of material resources (GNP per capita) into human development (longevity, education and literacy) for their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787127
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Do Freedom of Information Laws Decrease Corruption?
Tavares, Samia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is … experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices …, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836763
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Corruption, Transparency and Quality.Comparative Approaches and Judiciary Support
Matei, Ani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The paper aims to achieve a synthesis of the systemic connections between corruption, transparency and quality of the … social perception on corruption. Approaching corruption and transparency from the perspective of the public integrity systems … public services. Situated at the interface between public and private, corruption has the political and administrative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493600