CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Rahman, Kazi Mohammad Mahbobor |
|---|---|
| Title | Understanding Donors'Guided Governance Reforms Bangladesh: A Case of Governance Paradox Bangladesh: A Case of Governance Paradox |
| Summary | This study is about the impact of the implementation of governance reforms agenda initiated under PRSP on governance apparatus and governance performance of Bangladesh, which substantiates that Bangladesh is a case of governance paradox. Bangladesh implemented governance reforms required for the IMF-WB guided Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). Studying three PRSP documents and exploring the governance performance in the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) as the empirical strategy, the findings substantiate how Bangladesh a case of governance paradox. The findings suggest that Bangladesh implemented bounteous reforms required for PRSP which changed the governance apparatus; but in spite of these reforms implementation, the country’s performance in WGI was declining compared to the previous performance in 1996/1998 or the average performance of South Asian countries. Although, the quality of governance was improving poorly in 2011 in some dimensions compared to the base (2002) or beginning year (2003) of the PRSP implementation and compared to the average performance of low-income countries, it is not an improvement at all. Because the governance performance of Bangladesh is in the lower percentile ranks in most of the dimensions. Therefore, this investigation illuminates us challenging the existing theoretical knowledge of policy study that massive governance reforms do not necessarily bring greater quality improvement in the governance performance, and that is why Bangladesh is a case of governance paradox. Key Words: Bangladesh, Governance, Governance Paradox, Governance Performance, Governance Reforms, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP), Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) |
| Supervisor | Bodenstein Thilo Daniel |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/rahman_kazi.pdf |
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