Ethical Governance and Society
| Author | Tishyarakshit Chatterjee |
| Published date | 01 July 2013 |
| Date | 01 July 2013 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0019556120130304 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
ETHICAL
GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETY
TISHYARAKSHIT CHATTERJEE*
Ethical governance provides freedom to society and individuals
within to attain their best selves. The bottom-up heterogeneity
of
governance will throw up its own common links, codes
of
behaviour, transactions, economic and social relations as the
basis for ethical governance in society to take
fonn
in total
sync with the nonns
of
extant society. Therefore, our ethical
vision must ultimately promote a ground swell
of
support for
a government structure that reflects society in all its vertical
and
horizontal heterogeneity.
To
this
end
an approach
spearheading social sector reforms
and
empowerment
of
human resources is needed. Such a strategy will involve
knowledge development from research, knowledge processing
and knowledge sharing
in
all areas
of
governance and social
sector refonns.
THE
SUBJECT
opens
a
global
concern
and an
on-going
debate
encompassing definitions, perspectives and structure. Extant literature in
the area
of
good governance exploded in the early 90's with the World
Bank introducing three conditions to discuss financial engagements mainly
with developing countries in 1992.
The
Bank's
ethical governance
characteristics included the type
of
political regime; process
of
managing
economic and social resources and capacity
of
governments to formulate
and implement policies. The International Monetary Fund similarly declared
its total support for the Rule
of
Law, improving efficiency and accountability
in the public sector and tackling corruption as·a package in 1996, followed
by the condition that countries must have good governance to access loans
from the Fund in 2005. The United Nations underlined eight characteristics
of
ethical governance in 2009 declaring a world consensus on reform
towards such a paradigm. Overall, the global concern became focused on
removing corruption in governance first rather than taking up all the facets
of
the problem all at once.
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