'Good Governance': The Rise and Decline of a Policy Metaphor?

M. Doornbos

Journal of Development Studies, 2001, vol. 37, issue 6, 93-108

Abstract: This study aims to explore the conditions under which the criterion of 'good governance' first became adopted as a donor policy metaphor and now seems likely to get eclipsed. Why did it emerge at the time it did, and what, since then, has been its track record? Particular attention will be given in this regard to successive shifts in the relevant policy thinking within the World Bank. Moreover, the study discusses whether good governance is likely to keep drawing the same level of attention as it has done hitherto.

Keywords: Good Governance; Policies; World Bank; Criterion; Recipient Governments; Donor Polices; Conditionality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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