In any forum where business and India intersect, one may rightly presume that the politician feted by the United States Business Council, prominent economists and every major industrial leader in India as the paradigmatic leader for economic development and corruption-free governance in contemporary politics would be included on a panel.
2) Democratic Practice and the Rule of Law (DEPS-3) - Evidence of commitment, or lack of commitment, on the part of the government, political parties, or special interest groups to democratic principles, rule of law, transparent, corruption-free governance practices, and free and fair elections.
Among the believers, there is a blithe sense of assuredness that Mr Modi will deliver to India what his predecessor Manmohan Singh, a reticent 81-year-old technocrat, couldn't: decisive and corruption-free governance.
But you can't deny the fact that President Bush has put more money into AIDS and has put more money into" the Millennium Challenge Account, a $5 billion-a-year U.S. fund that ties development grants and loans to responsible, graft-free governance.
Better, Mr (retiring) Speaker, to do this in one stroke, and leave a legacy of terror-free governance.
Left brain thinking - logical, scientific, and concrete - has been highly valued in Western culture (notwithstanding the last eight years of non-analytical and fact-free governance at the national level, which is a whole new topic).
"We would say that no company can say it is absolutely free of governance issues but the fact is that they are at least cognisant of them".
And for Labour's new shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, it is more than embarrassing; it is evidence that there are systematic weaknesses in the free school governance structure set up by Gove.
One is the transatlantic model shared by many other countries, based upon democratic governance, with free peoples, free markets, and free trade; the other is autocratic governance, state-controlled or dominated economies, and managed trade.
So for markets to be truly free, they need governance".
It was possible to believe that by spreading the blessings of free trade, good governance and technological progress Britain's empire really was in the interests of all mankind.Of course, the reality was often far darker.
