Challenges and Opportunities of Good Governance in Ghana
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mohammed (PhD), Yasin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Daniel, Abrham | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-08T12:41:03Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T12:19:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-08T12:41:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T12:19:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Effective, stable, and accountable governments are essential. It can provide stakeholders at all levels to acknowledge the best alternatives for promoting good governance. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities of good governance in Ghana with special emphasis on accountability, transparency, judiciary, rule of law and human rights enforcement. In order to assess the challenges and opportunities of good governance, qualitative method of data analysis was used. Data was collected from secondary and primary sources and analyzed in order to recommend possible solutions. Over the years, the Ghanaian government and its institutions lacked the courage and will to enforce the law, procedures, and policies to enhance good governance. As a result in Ghana, until recently governance is characterized by poor institutional performance, weak parliament, and lack of independence of the judiciary, corrupt police force, political instability, abuse and misuse of political offices, insufficient budgetary accountability, and lack of respect for the rule of law and human rights, and corruption. But since around 1990s there observed significant improvement in respect to good governance in Ghana pertinent to performance of the institutions mentioned above. Finally, this thesis recommends that good governance is an essential prerequisite for any country’s development and to make the state and the political system workable and suitable for the people. Besides, it recommends that efficient and accountable institution and, political system; judicial, administrative, economic, and social rules that promote development, protect human rights and respect of the rule of law; and freedom for people to participate in those issues that affect their lives, must be in place in Ghana | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/241 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Good Government | en_US |
| dc.title | Challenges and Opportunities of Good Governance in Ghana | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |