Good Governance, Business and Human Rights in Energy Exporting Developing Countries: a Supreme Challenge for Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Accountability.
Article from: OGEL 4 (2004), in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
Introduction
Governance encompasses the way a country is governed especially in relation to its ability to foster sound economic growth through proper management of the country's revenue and improvement in the citizens' standard of living. A country that is unable to do this is bedeviled with poor governance. Good governance on the other hand thrives on a sound economic and regulatory framework that not only ensures transparency and accountability in the public and private sectors but also promotes and protects the human rights of the citizenry (be they civil, social, political, cultural or economic ...