Over the past few decades, good governance has become an important issue in public administration. One key reason behind this reality is the paramount role of government in promoting sustainable development and protecting the environment. Therefore, evaluating the impact of good governance on the quality of the environment could be taken into consideration by both economic researchers and polic...

it is well understood that the jouisance capacity of foreigners in intellectual property rights has a paradoxical nature. on one hand and as a minimalist approach, this right is governed by private law and on the other, based on a maximalist approach; it is under the public-economic law governance. therefore, reconnaissance of jouisacne capacity is under the publican law domain. meanwhile, it i...

the theory of good governance started in 1989 by world bank. good governance is defined as the process and structures that guide political and socio-economic relationships. the social capital at a society includes institutions, relationships, attitudes and values that govern interactions among people contributing to economic and social development. in this research, the impact of good governanc...

the main object of this paper is to find out the impact of economic and institutional factors on export of services in considering the example of oic countries. panel data method as an econometrics approach is used for estimating models. results show that variables such as gdp per capita, the real exchange rate, foreign direct investment, and information infrastructures have positive and signif...

This paper provides empirical evidence, from the study of sixteen major Indian states for the period 1980-2001, that under the economic reform process, the better institutional mechanism could actually help economies to grow faster with higher level of economic well-being. We estimate economic well-being index (by aggregating fifteen socio-economic variables, viz, education, infrastructure, tec...

In recent years African countries have faced a barrage of policy advice backed with financial support from development partners urging them to implement ‘good governance’ reforms. Good governance has come to mean support for improving the enforcement of property rights, the rule of law, fighting corruption and improving accountability. These reforms have enjoyed broad support because many of th...

scapes or metropolitan regions. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) defines governance today as “the organization and administration of regional authorities and institutions on the most varied levels as well as the corresponding processes of decision-making, cooperation, and exertion of influence” (OECD 2001). But, as most observers of politico-institutional develop...

Governance and democracy have become widely recognized as prerequisites for sustained development (Johnson 1982; White and Wade 1988). Democratic governance fosters transparency, accountability, the rule of law, respect for human rights, civic participation, and civic inclusiveness – all of which are necessary for securing economic productivity, equitable distribution and state legitimacy. We e...

The objective of this paper is to show the justification and importance of explicit inclusion of quality of governance in the debate on economic growth in Croatia. Governance is defined as the manner in which the state employs its power in handling the institutional environment, thus affecting the accumulation of economic growth factors. Although there are numerous elements in the quality of go...