Good Governance as an Instauration Towards Socioeconomic Development: a Case Study of Pakistan

Shama Zaman, Samina Saeed

Abstract


Good governance has been inclinational to a well-civilized society. The notion of governance has emphatically been promoted in the twenty-first century for sustainable socioeconomic development in a form of millennium & sustainable development goals (MDGs and SDGs). Because good governance is one of the multilayered stratagem being directly involved in a socioeconomic progression, it sets off a mechanism of modus operandi from higher to lower governing hierarchy. Significantly, it enlightens basic democratic system to levitate an infrastructure of good governance through standing on multidimensional pillars of accountability, transparency, rule of law and mass participation. Strategic planning of good governance overcomes the uneven justifications in all spheres of life. In fact, justified distribution of socioeconomic assets is deployed by the principles of good governance. That assists in maintaining the balance of power to not only initiate the development but cause its sustainability in the course of socioeconomic paradigms. Thus it is subsumed directly or indirectly in strengthening the individual, institutional, and societal capacity development. Impartially, a specific criterion of good governance has been designed as a tool effector in the national action plans of both developed and developing states. An accompaniment of good governance with socioeconomic sector in Pakistan has been distinguished as a critical phenomenon to the development process and to the effectiveness of development assistance. Because the issues of good governance are responsive to the present and future socioeconomic needs and developments, an insurance towards the condition of good governance urges major donors and international financial institutions to spread investment over socioeconomic challenges and reforms in Pakistan. Hence strategic planning and management highlighted with quality and standards reinvigorate the practice of good governance through assuring socioeconomic development as a reality and fortune of the nation.


Full Text:

PDF

References


Andrews, M. (2008). Are Swedish Models of Effective Government Suitable in the Development Domain, Do We Need a Theory of Government before We Measure Government Effectiveness? Manuscript, Kennedy School of Government.

Besancon, M. (2003). Good Governance Rankings: The Art of Measurement. World Peace Foundation-WPF Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts.

CEIC, 2019. Pakistan External Debt, 2006-2019

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/pakistan/external-debt

Grindle, M. S. (2004). Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries. An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, 17(4), 525–548. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0952-1895.2004.00256.x

Grindle, M. (2010). Faculty Research Working Paper Series, ‘Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea’ June; RWP 10-023. 3.

Human Development Index (2015). http://www.hdr.undp.org/en.

Hussain, M., & Hussain, A. (1993). Pakistan Problems of Governance, Vanguard books Pvt LID. www.akmalhussain.net/publish

Huther, J., & Shah, A. (1894). Applying a Simple Measure of Good Governance. Policy Research Working Paper.

Hyden, G., Court, J., & Mease, K. (2004). Making Sense of Governance: Empirical Evidence from Sixteen Countries. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Jafee, D. (1998). Levels of Socioeconomic Development Theory. Greenwood Publishing Group, 3. Print.

Killick, T. (1989). A Reaction Too Far: Economic Theory and the Role of the State in Developing Countries. Overseas Development Institute, London.

National Party, (South Africa). (1994). Governance Barometer: Policy guidelines for good governance. Cape town Publishers, Dept. of strategy, Federal council. www.worldcat.org

PILDAT (2015). ‘Governance Poll’ 2015. www.pildat.org

PILDAT (2017). Annual Report: 2016-2017.

https://pildat.org/wpcontent/uploads/2018/05/Anual_Report2016-2017.pdf

PILDAT (2018). Annual Report: 2017-2018.

https://pildat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Anual-Report-2017-2018.pdf

Rosenau, J. N. (1991). Along the Domestic Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in the Turbulent World’ Cambridge University Press. Print (Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The First Global revolution; A Report of the Council of Rome, New York Pantheon Books, pg. 181. Print)

Steven, A. R. (1992). Governing in an Information Society. Montreal institute for Research on Public Policy, 21.

UNDP (1997). Policy Document, governance for sustainable Human development.

http://magnet.undp.org/policy/

UNDP (2018). Human Development in Pakistan.

http://www.pk.undp.org/content/pakistan/en/home/blog/2018/human-development-in-pakistan.html

Webster's Third New International Dictionary. (1986). www.dictionary.com

World Bank. Report. (1992). Governance and Development. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/




DOI: https://doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v9i3.15168

Copyright (c) 2019 Shama Zaman, Samina Saeed

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Journal of Public Administration and Governance  ISSN 2161-7104

Email: jpag@macrothink.org

Copyright © Macrothink Institute

To make sure that you can receive messages from us, please add the 'macrothink.org' domain to your e-mail 'safe list'. If you do not receive e-mail in your 'inbox', check your 'bulk mail' or 'junk mail' folders. 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------