Governance and Development : Bangladesh and Regional Experiences
Contents: 1. Governance and development: an overview/Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman. 2. Governance and Parliament: does the Jatiya Sangsad matter in promoting good governance in Bangladesh?/Taiabur Rahman. 3. Politics of electoral reforms and governance: Bangladesh context/Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan. 4. Health care for rural people of Bangladesh: overview of some governance issues/Rounak Jahan and Masudus Salehin. 5. Micro insights from some selected Non-Government Secondary High Schools in Bangladesh: governance perspective/M. Abu Eusuf. 6. Informal economy and governance/Md. Hedayet Ullah Chowdhury. 7. Scope of E-Governance in Bangladesh: present challenges and future possibilities/Farhad Hossain. 8. Governance mapping: pro-poor governance in Rural Bangladesh/Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman and Shuchita Sharmin. 9. NGO Governance in Bangladesh: quest for transparency and accountability/Sheikh Tawfique M. Haque and Khondoker Shakhawat Ali. 10. Encountering poverty in the midst of plenty: developmental experience of India and Bangladesh/Amita Singh. 11. Managerial innovations in delivery of service in Public Sector Organizations in Sri Lanka/R. Fernando and S. Lalitha. 12. Development and governance: emerging ethical and sustainable paradigms in Malaysia/Reevany Bustami, Ellisha Nasruddin, Salfarina Gapor, Zulkarnain Hatta, Zaini Abu Bakar and Roslinya Latip.
From the Preface: "The research papers of this book were presented in a Regional Conference on Governance and Development held on 25-26 May 2006. The conference was organized by the Institutional Capacity Development Project of Department of Development, University of Dhaka. The project was supported by the Embassy of Denmark, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The prime purpose of the conference was to highlight the major and critical governance issues of Bangladesh drawing inferences and learning from selected regional countries like India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
The research papers indicate that the quality of governance in Bangladesh and selected regional countries are much less than desired and there are rooms for further improvement both in quality and process. Governance failures are identified as the product of "systematic and structural factors" and various reform measures have been recommended to allow the institutional actors of good governance i.e., legislature, judiciary, local government, civil society to make their rightful contributions in the process."
