Is “Good Governance” an Appropriate Model for Governance Reforms? The Relevance of East Asia for Developing Muslim Countries

Impact of Unemployment and Governance on Poverty in Pakistan: A Fresh Insight from Non-linear ARDL Co-integration Approach

“…The undermining of these economic factors exacerbates poverty. Many researchers (Kaufmann & Bellver, 2005;Kaufmann et al, 2006;Mauro, 1997;Yusuf et al, 2014) contended the indirect link between corruption and poverty and thus validated the above-mentioned direction of the economic model while few asserted the direct link between the two (Khan, 2009).…”

“…Interestingly, researchers focused their studies more on finding the relationship of poverty with indicators of governance (government effectiveness, rule of law, absence of violence and political stability, voice and accountability, control of corruption, and regulatory quality) mentioned by World Bank (Kaufmann et al, 2013). However, these indicators provide mixed evidence like, corruption has an indirect influence on poverty (Chetwynd et al, 2003), while Khan (2009) claimed the positive relationship between the two. Also, lack of accountability, corrupt government, inadequate infrastructure and political instability aggravate the poverty situation (Rakodi et al, 2000).…”

Statebuilding and Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Post-2003 Iraq

“…Accordingly, the policy prescriptions of its agenda for good governance include not only neoliberal policies such as privatization, liberalization, and fiscal and monetary discipline, but also a new complementary set of institutional reforms emphasizing the rule of law, democracy, and decentralization. 12 Statebuilding, which has now become the central objective of international interventions in conflict and post-conflict areas, reflects this emphasis on reforming the institutional environment in order to facilitate economic growth. Statebuilding actors commonly assume that good governance is necessary for economic growth and that, in turn, economic growth is necessary for peace.…”

Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity

“…Human rights increasingly became part of the shift to neo-liberal practices in economic development by dominant organizations such as the IMF and World Bank, characterized as the Washington Consensus that emerged in the 1990s (Springborg, 2009). Although the overriding emphasis in governance was securing property rights and efficient market systems, this created a discourse in which 'good governance' was broadly conceived and thus permitted an increasing use of the provision and protection of human rights as both goal and criteria for assessing 'development' in poorer countries, including Muslim ones in the Middle East and North Africa (Khan, 2009;Springborg, 2009). A revised 'Washington consensus' developed by the World Bank in 2008 increased explicit recommendations of good governance as central to successful economic progress (Henry, 2009).…”