higher in democratic countries than in authoritarian ones, suggesting that development was as a condition to democracy. More … to democracy, suggesting in turn that the economic is not as important in democratization as it seemed in the 1950s …

achieved rapid economic development and democracy in one generation, Ghana suffered from slow development and a general …

governance and democracy. They proposed a break with a political system they saw as neo-colonialist. Activists such as 'Y'en a … candidate and former prime minister Agbeyome Kodjo. Senegal, like Benin, has long been marketed as a 'showcase of democracy' in … serious challenge to Senegalese democracy. …

This paper seeks to critically examine recent debates on global governance, albeit from a human development perspective … community as a whole. It reviews some of the decentralized forms of governance which are evolving as developing countries assert … study in the inadequacies of current global governance. Finally, it uses the two imperatives mentioned to review the lessons …

of GDP growth. The paper finally suggests a positive correlation between democracy and economic development. …

The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …