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development. Spearman rank order correlation analysis confirmed that for all selected countries in 2000 there was a high positive … correlation between their GGI rank and HDI rank. The correlation matrix for CEE countries in 2000 confirmed our hypothesis that …
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Good governance can reduce uncertainty, transaction, search and production costs, and ultimately affect firm performance. In this paper, we explore the link between good governance and the profitability of individual firms in African countries. We employ the governance indices developed at the...
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This article examines the trajectories and approaches to public policy making in Africa. Using process tracing …
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From the Gabonese experience, this article studies the way international pressures about “good governance” have an impact on the organization and the functioning of the health system in a developing country. At first governance and good governance are defined under a critical point of view....
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African states are often called corrupt indicating that the political system in Africa differs from the one prevalent … norm of African statehood. Thus we must turn to the overly neglected theoretical work on the political economy of Africa in … order to determine how the poverty of governance in Africa is firmly anchored both in Africa’s domestic socioeconomic …
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National governments have sovereign mandates to provide basic goods and services to the citizenry. This study seeks to find out the citizenry?s opinion regarding the general performance of the Government of National Unity (GNU). Study findings suggest that while the GNU has made commendable...
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Corruption is widely identified as a critical problem for developing economies and is also viewed as a priority issue by international organisations and donors. Governments such as Vietnam place anti-corruption high on their policy agenda. However, external observers regularly criticise them for...
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