Governance, democracy and development in the Third World

Leftwich, Adrian

doi:10.1080/01436599308420345

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“…Several different definitions have been proposed (Agere 2000;DfID 1997;Leftwich 1993;World Bank 1994;UNDP 1997) and many have been challenged, because they consist of a set of concepts that are too abstract (Poluha and Rosendahl 2002). Rather than debate what constitutes "good governance", we simply use some of the commonly identified attributes of "good governance" to provide an overview of the current thinking on global health governance (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 2009), and discuss its good and bad aspects.…”

Section: Defining "Good Governance"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases

Bärnighausen¹,

Bloom²,

Humair³

2014

Manson's Tropical Infectious Diseases

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in P O L I C Y P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACT Global Health Governance and Tropical DiseasesGlobal Health Governance (GHG) comprises the means adopted to promote decision making on actions to protect and promote global health, along with the underlying architecture of global health institutions, initiatives, and actors that facilitate these means. GHG is a key factor influencing health outcomes throughout the world. Over the past decade, the GHG system has increased dramatically in size and complexity. In the past half century, GHG has achieved successes against some tropical diseases, but going forward, it faces new challenges. The current GHG system has several weaknesses -lack of participation, transparency, accountability, and efficiency -but the system also has several strengthscapacity for innovation, flexibility, and the ability to attract a motivated workforce and to encourage entrepreneurship. To adequately address tropical diseases in the future, GHG reforms will need to address some of the weaknesses while preserving the strengths.JEL Classification: F35, F68, I18

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Section: Defining "Good Governance"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases

Bärnighausen¹,

Bloom²,

Humair³

2014

Manson's Tropical Infectious Diseases

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“…That is, development cannot exist without good governance (see Leftwich 1993, Boeninger 1993, UNDP 1997, ADB 2003. Thus, good governance is necessary in the planning and implementation of national development programs that focus on poverty reduction initiatives for the impoverished sectors in the rural areas-the landless, indigenous peoples and the marginal farmers and fishermen.…”

Section: Fund For Agricultural Development (Ifad) and Implemented By mentioning

confidence: 99%

Good Governance of Microcredit Strategy for Poverty Reduction: Focus on Western Mindanao, Philippines

Moreno

2004

SSRN Journal

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The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and social equity-laden microcredit strategy for the impoverished agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Mindanao. It particularly examines the program design and implementation strategies of the Enterprise Development Credit (EDC) sub-component of the Western Mindanao Community Initiatives Project (WMCIP). The study aims to provide lessons and insights for the planning and implementation of comprehensive and integrated Official Development Assistance (ODA)-funded government programs for poverty reduction and rural development.The data and information were generated from combined descriptive and field studies covering a sample survey, group discussions, interviews, field visits and observations, official documents and other secondary sources. The respondents were officials and field personnel of WMCIP, line agencies, local government units (LGUs), and non-government organizations (NGOs); officers and members of cooperatives and people's organizations (POs); religious leaders and informal moneylenders; and WMCIP beneficiaries.Overall, microcredit is applicable only to the enterprising poor. The application of microcredit to other poverty groups who actually need subsidies and social safety nets would be a mistake. Thus, the EDC sub-component should be reformulated and revitalized following the program design of the Bangladesh Rural i Advancement Committee (BRAC). Its graduated strategy for helping the poor should be applied to the poverty pyramid by categorizing the WMCIP beneficiaries into four poverty groups: (1) micro-enterprise operators or the less poor, (2) enterprising or moderately poor, (3) laboring or very poor, and (4) poorest of the poor and most vulnerable or the ultra-poor.The results further reveal that based on the poverty pyramid, the credit program designs of the Credit Assistance Program for Program Beneficiaries Development (CAP-PBD) and Quedan Rural Credit and Finance Corporation (QUEDANCOR) are readily applicable to the credit needs and financial capabilities of the enterprising poor. Beyond QUEDANCOR's microcredit facility, the nonenterprising poor may actually opt for financial assistance from cooperatives or CAP-PBD to help finance their agriculture-and fishery-related production activities. On the other hand, the beneficiaries and their "not-so-strong" organizations that could not readily comply with the minimum credit standards should be provided with farm production subsidies, capability-building services and social safety nets under a special poverty alleviation project. This will enable them to pass minimum credit standards within a transition period of six months to one year.In view of WMCIP's EDC sub-component, the study further identifies the factors that enable or limit successful design and implementation of microcredit program and the provision of public support services. The enabling factors are vital to planning and decision-making that will eventually make...

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“…Following the disintegration of the communist bloc, the resurgence of neo-liberalism and the rise of pro-democracy movements in the developing world, three ideological threads began to knit and converge around a new policy agenda of 'liberal democratic reform processes' to promote development and foster democratisation in Africa (Leftwich, 1993). The three lines of thought are articulated around the emergence of the notions of 'governance' and 'social capital' and their connotations regarding the revival of 'civil society' (Edwards & Hulme, 1996;Hearn, 2001;Lewis, 2002); these ideas are briefly explored in this paper.…”

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Civil society: a revived mantra in the development discourse

Suleiman

2011

Water Policy

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There is an assumption that the inclusion of civil society in governance processes promotes democratic performance and contributes to 'good governance', in the sense of pluralism, accountability and transparency. This paper refers to the governance process of the water utility in Accra involving the private sector, and examines the validity of the assumed roles regarding the inclusion of civil society in the governance process. For the purposes of this study, civil society is defined as 'non-state and non-market organisations that can, or have the potential to, champion democratic governance reforms and act as agents for political and socio-economic change'. Contrary to assumptions made about the inclusion of civil society, the analysis herein shows that the inclusion of civil groups in the governance process of the water utility led to hostile and undemocratic processes and to weak indicators of 'good governance'. The main concern of the key actors was centred on how to build consensus around the privatisation programme of the water utility. 'Managing consensus', however, is an inappropriate planning measure. It is argued here that the focus should rather be on how to design governance structures and arrangements, mobilised by legitimate and committed political leadership, to build and enhance the capacity of governance processes.

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Governance, democracy and development in the Third World

Cited by 267 publications

References 43 publications

Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases

Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases

Good Governance of Microcredit Strategy for Poverty Reduction: Focus on Western Mindanao, Philippines

Civil society: a revived mantra in the development discourse

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