There will be tough fighting ahead, and the Afghan government will need to deliver better governance.
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It focused on strong management and operations, better governance, innovation, and improved responsiveness to clients.
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India wants to speed up economic growth and development, which calls for better governance.
Granted, Merkel and Sarkozy emphasized that there must be better governance in euroland.
Under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), countries will get aid and investment in return for better governance.
Whatever its result, the election is unlikely to bring better governance to Paraguay.
The Welsh affairs select committee began its inquiry after the White Paper "Better Governance for Wales" was published back in June.
Better governance is just not an end in itself -- it is a path to job creation and to a better economy.
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What specific actions can civil society and the media take to effectively lobby their governments for a better governance and financing of education?
In turn, greater economic equality between men and women has been shown to reduce poverty rates, boost GDP, and lead to better governance.
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The standard explanation here is better governance and lower systemic risk.
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This sets out a programme that includes schools without fees, state and community-led enrolment drives, a more relevant curriculum, fully professionalised teachers, decent buildings and learning materials, better governance.
The treasury points to the example of Ghana, which only last year completed its first democratic transfer of presidential power to an opposition party: better governance is meant to be one of the principal tests of suitability for American aid.
Already shareholder groups that push for better corporate governance have been formed in five Asian countries.
This was the argument made at the conference by Robert Monks, a veteran agitator for better corporate governance.
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Greenpeace's Indradi says Brazil's strong point has been to implement better forest governance, backed up with good monitoring and serious law enforcement.
That caution, in turn, has led to better corporate governance among borrowers.
Mr Jang is a crusader for better corporate governance at the chaebol.
Boris Fedorov, a prominent champion of better corporate governance in Russia's biggest companies, and one of Sberbank's independent directors, believes that the move is mistimed.
He notes that India has a stronger tradition of private enterprise, more developed managerial education, better corporate governance, a freer flow of information, a more vigilant investment community, and stronger banking and legal institutions.
Such a view is not surprising, given her background: she has worked since 1986 with Bob Monks, one of America's best-known champions of better corporate governance, setting up Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises big institutions on casting proxy votes.
The movement for corporate social responsibility is in direct opposition, in such cases, to the movement for better corporate governance, which demands that managers fulfill their fiduciary duty to act in the shareholders' interest or be relieved of their responsibilities.
In Britain, Steve Young of Lancaster University and Dennis Oswald of the London Business School found an unusual concentration of external shareholders (ie, fewer insiders, more institutions) among firms announcing buybacks, and also spotted a link to better corporate governance.
The study's salient conclusions include the need for openness, for an improvement in environmental management, and a better quality of governance in an increasingly globalised economy.
The leaders also asked the International Monetary Fund to speed up changes in its governance to better represent the developing world as a voting bloc.
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What radical new ideas do we see coming out of business schools in terms of how we could organise governance and boards better?
The programme uses an innovative model for preventing and resolving tensions and conflicts among individuals and communities through developing literacy as a means to building better social cohesion and improved governance mechanisms.
In a statement before action, the representative of the United States stressed that discussions and policymaking on Internet governance must include the full range of stakeholders, adding that the consensus reached on the text regrettably did not better reflect steps by the Internet Governance Forum to examine its working methods and participation.
Businesspeople who monitor the governance indicators are likely to make better decisions.
Ball said the splitting of the chairman and CEO positions is a positive for corporate governance as a non-executive chairman should better represent the long-term interests of shareholders giving management the time to focus on running the company.
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