Of these, Factor 1 (prosperity, equality, and governance) explained more than one-third of the total variance, and positively clustered in northwest Europe and negatively in southeast Europe.
Hayden King, director of Ryerson University's Centre for Indigenous Governance, explained: "In the history of the BC treaty process very few agreements have been made.
Poor governance explains, in part, why political spenders have worse results.
In particular, the corrected index fails to support three widely influential claims: that shareholder protection is higher in common than in civil law countries; that shareholder protection predicts stock market size or ownership dispersion; and that weak corporate governance explains the extent of exchange rate depreciation during the Asian financial crisis of 1997 1998.
We found that a vivid tradition of mobility allowing for pluriactivity on- and off-farm, combined with community self-governance, explains how local populations succeeded in articulating individual agency with collective control over their commons of land, seed resources, and social rules.
One impediment to governance, he explained, was that liberation movements captured many African governments.
At the seminar, the three scholars reviewed different models of private efforts providing public value, outlined the justifications for collaborative governance, and explained some of the conditions that make such collaborative partnerships productive and valuable.
According to the letter sent by the Sunday Times to John Whittingdale, the chairman of the select committee inquiry into football governance, Bhamjee explained that some of Africa's current and former representatives on the Fifa executive committee had previously sold their votes.
The unusual nature of New York State's pension governance helps explain why one of my successors, Alan G. Hevesi, was able to use the fund for his own purposes.
He examines the effects of corruption on governance and explains why only some societies have been successful at rooting it out.
Indeed, scholars have pointed to the unique aspects of Japanese governance to explain Japan's economic miracle, only to reverse their view, citing it as a major factor behind the lost decades of the '90s and '00s.
