Objectives and Characteristics of Good Governance
Objectives and Characteristics of Good Governance
Good governance aims at achieving much more than the efficient management of
credibility of institutions
Ensuring accountability
The World Bank has defined good governance as having six main characteristics,
Voice and accountability that include civil liberties and political stability
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Independence of judiciary
Curbs on corruption
conceptualize good governance and postulate its basic characteristics, which work
enables them to influence the decisions and actions of those who are
beneficiaries.
Rule of Law: Governance does not imply the arbitrary use of authority.
machine and an independent judiciary that can instil confidence in the people.
the stakeholders into their ambit. Presently, till emphasis is more on institutions
being responsive to the need, of all those who are likely to be affected by
their decisions.
on ensuring that all till members have a stake and role in it, and are not
following:
Participatory
Responsive to people
Service-oriented
Sustainable
Acceptable to people
Accountable
The World Bank also outlined certain basics of good governance, which have
corruption.
Protecting the vulnerable through affordable and targeted safety nets, and
Bovaird and Loffler (2003) list ten characteristics of good governance which have
recurred frequently both in the literature and in political and practitioner debates
1. Citizen engagement
2. Transparency
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3. Accountability
4. The equalities agenda and social inclusion (gender, ethnicity, age and religion)
9. Sustainability
aid was formulated by the World Bank in its report, Assessing Aid; What Works,
What Doesn’t and Why (1998). In this report, the interaction between
development aid and quality of governance is established, and it is argued that the
institutions.
on policy performance and reform commitment, rather than on the extent of poverty
or the developmental needs of a borrowing country. Gradually, it became an aid