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Searching with a thematic focus on Theories of good government, Governance

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  Aid effectiveness and the Millennium Development Goals

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2004

  This paper focuses on key ways in which donors can improve the quality of foreign assistance and make it more effective in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Strengthening good governance in business, government, and civil society: shared challenges of leadership and accountability

  Commonwealth Business Council, 2003

  This report looks how strengthening good governance and accountability can be achieved in three areas: government; civil society; and business. It sets out proposals and recommendations for the adoption of similar standards by governments, the private sector and civil society bodies which may be developed further through dialogue between the three sectors.
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  Hearing the voices of the poor: encouraging good governance and poverty reduction through media sector support

  World Learning, 2003

  This paper argues that heightened media involvement in the PRSP process could help build a stronger independent media sector while preparing citizens to take an active role in dialogues that will have a huge impact on their lives.
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  The new approach to foreign aid, is the enthusiasm warranted?

  CATO Institute, Washington, 2003

  This paper critically appraises the ‘selective’ approach to foreign assistance, including the proposed new aid initiative, the Millennium Challenge Account.
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  Governance and growth: measurement and evidence

  US Agency for International Development, 2002

  An emerging consensus among development and growth economists views good governance as a prerequisite to sustained increases in living standards.
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  Final report of the ad hoc working group on participatory development and good governance (part 2)

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1997

  This paper presents lessons from experience of support for participatory development and good governance.
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  Aiding civil society? Democracy assistance and public policy in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What impact does foreign aid have on civil society organisations in Africa? Exploring changes in organisational capacity and CSO ability to influence government policy and legislation, recent research asks: what are the key motives and approaches of aid donors in supporting civil society? What is the nature of CSOs in their domestic setting?
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  Good governance or bad management

  Focus on the Global South, 2002

  This book presents a number of chapters by individual authors which give a damning indictment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) policy and processes.Central to the books argument is that whilst precepts of good governance should imply publicly accountable systems of rights, entitlements, laws, rules, distribution and use of resources and decision making based on universal principles of equali
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  Growth without governance

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2002

  It is well known that there is a strong positive correlation between per capita incomes and the quality of governance across countries.
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  Reconceptualising governance

  United Nations Development Programme, 1997

  There is a growing international consensus that sound governance is essential in achieving sustainable human development. This discussion paper of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) emphasises the realms of governance (civil society, the state and the private sector), the institutions that set the rules and the organisations that implement policy and strategy accordingly.

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