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Is ‘Good’ governance good for business? A cross-national analysis of firms in African countries
Ngobo, Paul Valentin; Fouda, Maurice - In: Journal of World Business 47 (2012) 3, pp. 435-449
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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The Politics of Public Policy in Ghana
Kpessa, Michael W. - In: Journal of Developing Societies 27 (2011) 1, pp. 29-56
This article examines the trajectories and approaches to public policy making in Africa. Using process tracing …
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK SITES AND THE GOVERNANCE OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Moisoiu, Cristian - In: Global Economic Observer 1 (2013) 2, pp. 121-129
The social network sites are becoming more and more complex communities of social dialogue, involving themselves in the governance processes. The stakeholders in different fields are getting engaged to rebuild the institutional capacity and the consensus process. The present paper tries to...
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Typologia systemów gospodarowania w rolnictwie jako przykład stosowania zasady good governance w rozwoju obszarów ONW
Roszkowska-Mądra, Barbara - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 10 (2010) 25
A justification of using the good governance rule in the policy of less favoured areas (LFAs) development was presented. Using typology of farming systems for increasing efficiency of public governance in the LFAs development was discussed. This approach allows a flexible implementation of...
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Sustainable Development Policies in Europe
Caratti, Pietro; Cascio, Gabriella Lo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
The objective of this paper is to investigate the actual situation in the shift towards the implementation of Sustainable Development Policies in Europe. The aim is to highlight the key role of the European Union in bringing about sustainable development within Europe and also on the wider...
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La ‘bonne gouvernance’ et les pays en développement : le cas des politiques de santé au Gabon
Boidin, Bruno - In: Ethics and Economics 8 (2011) 2, pp. 25-25
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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Corruption, good governance, and the African state: A critical analysis of the political-economic foundations of orruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ganahl, Joseph Patrick - Professur für Wirtschaftspolitik, insbesondere … - 2013
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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Zimbabwe?s Government of National Unity: Harvest of Thorns?
Zinyama, Tawanda; Takavarasha, Prosper E.T. - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 4 (2014) 3, pp. 444-459
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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Myths of Political Independence, or How Not to Solve the Corruption Problem: Lessons for Vietnam
Painter, Martin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …
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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European public administration under the principles of legality, proportionality and subsidiarity
Mihaela V., Carausan - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2009
Within the European Union order, the national public administrations play a very important role. They are responsible for the enforcement and the control of the execution of the policies of the European Communities, in all the states of the European Union, in the interest of the respective...
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