CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES According to the institute for Corporate Governance‚ Dubai‚ CG is ‘the system by which business corporations are directed and controlled.CG has received special attention from all over the world after scandals at Enron Corporation (USA)‚ The BCCI Bank (UK)‚ the Harshad Mehta Share Scam (India)‚ and Satyam Computer Services Limited (India). Furthermore‚ After the global financial meltdown (2007-10) it is evident that lack of stringent CG
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Jajoria|Rohit Raj|Suresh K Introduction Many governments all over the world are today embarking on an ambitious e-governance projects aimed at bridging the digital divide between the rich and poor as well as the urban and rural citizens. However a closer look at the statistics at this stage would give us the real picture. According to a World Bank estimate about 85% of the e-governance projects across the developing countries have failed to achieve the desired result either totally or partially. The
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DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: NIGERIA’S DILEMMA Ilufoye Sarafa Ogundiya Department of Political Science Usmanu Danfodiyo University‚ Sokoto‚ Nigeria E-mail: oisarafa@yahoo.com‚ elegantlv@aol.co.uk Abstract Despite its enormous resources and huge potentialities‚ Nigeria remains grossly undeveloped. Consequently‚ political instability‚ abject poverty‚ acute youth unemployment‚ heightened crime rate‚ poor health prospects and widespread malnourishment have been the main features of Nigeria’s
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BOARD‚ THE EXECUTIVE & GOOD GOVERNANCE Ladies and Gentlemen‚ this paper attempts to look at the board and individual directors in context to organisational development. To achieve this‚ the key roles and duties of the board and its directors will be fully reviewed in light of current corporate governance concerns. This paper relies heavily on Review of The Role and Effectiveness of Non-executive Directors – Higgs Review – (2003) and the Combined Code on Corporate Governance (2006) for referencing.
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A. The Implications for corporate governance and financial institutions In Enron’s case‚ we may see that the principle weakness of corporate governance today is the excessive concentration of power in the hands of top management. Enron involve allegations of massive accounting fraud and huge losses in shareholder value. In May 2002‚ the Business Roundtable released its Principles of Corporate Governance. This is a set of principles intended to assist corporate management and boards of directors
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Good governance has been a key concept for democratic development in many countries around the world during the past few decades. Thailand is one of those which have embraced the idea. The notion of good governance was first given importance and included in the Thai national agenda in the 1990’s. At its inception‚ not many people‚ particularly those at the grassroot level‚ understood what it meant. There were attempts to explain this concept to the public and even attempts by community leaders
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Corporate Governance in Banking: A Conceptual Framework Penny Ciancanelli E-mail: p.ciancanelli@strath.ac.uk And Jose Antonio Reyes Gonzalez E-mail: areyes@eh.quik.co.uk Department of Accounting and Finance Strathclyde University Glasgow‚ G4 0LN Tel: (44) (0) 141 548-3896 Fax: (44) (0) 141 548-3547 This paper can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=253714 Paper submitted for presentation at the
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MALAYSIAN CODE ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 2012 ii Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance 2012 Contents iii CONTENTS Foreword Corporate GovernanCe in Malaysia Corporate GovernanCe prinCiples and reCoMMendations principle 1: ESTAbLISh CLEAR ROLES AND RESPONSIbILITIES principle 2: STRENGThEN COMPOSITION principle 3: REINfORCE INDEPENDENCE principle 4: fOSTER COMMITMENT principle 5: UPhOLD INTEGRITY IN fINANCIAL REPORTING principle 6: RECOGNISE AND MANAGE RISkS v ix xiii 1-1 2-1
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Total Quality Management An Approach towards Good Governance By *Uzma Akbar **Akbar S. Awan *FOUNDATION University Institute of Management and Computer Sciences Newlalazar‚ Rawalpindi. Pakistan **Principle WAH Engineering College‚ University of WAH WAH Cantt‚ Pakistan 1. Introduction The federal government of Pakistan (GOP) is presently organized into 48 divisions‚ 173 attached departments and 203 autonomous/semi-autonomous bodies (including public corporations‚ public
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European Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-216X Vol.35 No.3 (2009)‚ pp.337-346 © EuroJournals Publishing‚ Inc. 2009 http://www.eurojournals.com/ejsr.htm Factors Affecting Good Governance in Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis Imran Sharif Chaudhry Associate Professor‚ Department of Economics Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan‚ Pakistan E-mail: imranchaudhry@bzu.edu.pk Shahnawaz Malik Professor and Chairman‚ Department of Economics Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan‚ Pakistan E-mail: shahnawazmalik@bzu
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