Core Characteristics Of Good Governance: Development And Good Development

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Governance is about how decisions are made and how they are implemented. Thus Good Governance basically means choosing best possible ways to make a decision and implementing them with high level of efficiency. Good Governance is in fact a much wider term. According to the UNDP, Good Governance have following core characteristics: - Participation. - Rule of Law. - Accountability. - Transparency. - Responsiveness. - Consensus oriented. - Effective , efficiency, equity. The term Good Governance are frequently used now a days in development literature. It is argued by many scholars that Good Governance is key to Good development. Let us first try to analyze what is development and Good development. Development basically means growth in G.D.P of a country along with growth in human developmental aspects. But as seen in recent times that growth and human development are not equitable and environmentally sustainable. Due to this term Good development came into light. It basically means sustainable development that aims to achieve high level of economic , social and human development that is equitable and environmentally sustainable. Recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals by United Nations gives us details of various aspects of good development. Good governance and Good development are corollary to each other but it cannot be denied that good development requires much more than just good governance like high level of technological capability, active civil society, etc. It

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