Improving Road Administration in the Asia-Pacific Region: Some Lessons from Experience

Clay Wescott

Chapter 7 in Infrastructure and Productivity in Asia, 2005, pp 123-143 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Asia-Pacific countries are increasingly working to improve the management of their social and economic resources for development. Although the ADB (1995, pp. 1–7) recognizes a diversity of political systems and institutional cultures in the region, the ADB defines four aspects of sound governance relevant for all countries: 1. accountability (officials answerable to the entity from which they derive their authority, that work has been conducted according to agreed rules and standards, and reported fairly and accurately); 2. participation (allowing public employees a role in decision making; empowering citizens, and especially the poor, by promoting their rights to access and secure control over basic entitlements that allow them to earn a living); 3. predictability (fair and consistent application of laws, regulations and policies); and 4. transparency (low cost, understandable, and relevant information made available to citizens to promote effective accountability, and clarity about laws, regulations and policies).

Keywords: Road Sector; Road Maintenance; Road Project; Improve Road; Road Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523562_7

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