When these nations were divided into three groups, the median (range) HIV prevalence estimates remained constant at 0.7% (0.05 – 33.7%) and 0.75% (0.05% – 33.4%) for the lower and middle mean governance groups respectively despite improvements in other health and economic indices.
- The Decline of the Middle Class: Stealth Governance and Income Inequality.
Tables 5 7 in the initial paper, showing health and economic data for 149 countries grouped by low, middle and high governance ranking, highlighted some of the structural challenges these countries face.
The US Airways model could prove to be a good middle ground for employee governance, said L. Nick Lacey, an executive vice president at Morten Beyer & Agnew, an airline consulting company in Arlington, Va.
Mother Nature and Iran's emergent middle classes require much better governance, integrated with the world.
The approach, also described as "progressive governance," explores a middle ground between traditional forms of socialism and capitalism.
Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese mobile phone entrepreneur and campaigner for improved Africa governance, believes the middle class will be an agent of change.
Shia Houthi rebels have upended governance of a Middle Eastern state whose military and intelligence services have been heavily subsidized by the US during the Obama administration.
In 2007, the economists Alberto Chang and Mark Gradstein found that societies with a large middle class have much better governance and much more democracy – but when the middle class begins to implode, as in Britain and the US today, the rich begin to hijack the political system and make it serve only their interests.
In the end, the controversy in Hong Kong should not be cast as yet another round of the emotional and ideological battle between the "pro-democracy" West and "anti-democracy" Beijing, but as an opportunity to create something new in governance -- a middle way between West and East.
