Social Capital and Good Governance—A Nexus for Disaster Management: Lessons Learned from BangladeshThis paper summarizes the good practice and lessons learned from the recent cyclone disasters and water surge events from the coastal areas of Bangladesh and reveals how people could facilitate the......
Social capital generally refers to trust, concern for one's associates, a willingness to live by the norms of one's community and to punish those who do not. While essential to good governance, these behaviors and dispositions appear to conflict with the fundamental behavioral assumptions of econ...
: examining social capital of intern... Digital media technology is an intersection field of art and technology, which needs the inter-disciplinary talents who are good at art and computer technology and emphasis on the training of creative talents. Based on the analysis of ex... MA Kraner,...
JOHANNESBURG, July 4 (Xinhua) -- BRICS members could use good governance to alleviate social ills, including grinding poverty and inequality between the rich and the poor, according to experts speaking to Xinhua. BRICS is an acronym for the grouping of the world's leading emerging economies, na...
In this paper we consider to what extent Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance can affect sovereign bond spreads. First, countries with good ESG performance tend to have less default risk and thus lower bond spreads. Moreover, the economic impact is stronger in the long-run, ...
Despite a recent line of research highlighting trust as an important determinant of residents’ happiness in Western countries, empirical evidence regarding the strength of these linkages in the developing world needs to be more comprehensive and conclus
Demanding good governance : a stocktaking of social accountability initiatives by civil society in anglophone Africa McNeil, Mary, and Takawira Mumvuma. 2006. Demanding Good Governance: A Stocktaking of Social Accountability Initiatives by Civil Society in Anglophone Africa. Washington, DC: World Bank ...
This highlights the importance of global coordination to extend sources of aid funds, cultivate social capital, and improve governance. Imbalances and trade-offs limit the effectiveness of SDG implementation Due to differences in the global resource base, status of the environment, and domestic and ...
We also include a range of firm-level variables to control for differences in firm attributes, CEO attributes, and corporate governance that can potentially affect CEO compensation; and, we include year and industry fixed effects in the empirical models. Using a comprehensive sample of annual ...
In addition, it is worth noting that a number of theoretical developments considered previously (in particular, issues related to the participation of women in the GG (Hazarika et al., 2014; Kaufman and Grace, 2011), issues of good governance at the grassroots (Palanithurai, 2005; Panday and...