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The
Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently completed an assessment of how
the Philippines is being governed. While finding snippets of good
news in some of the efforts that are being made in various levels
and sectors of government, still, the ADB asserts, such efforts
barely succeed in effecting good governance for the long term. Many
of these initiatives also tend to fail, the ADB says, for various
reasons not the least of which are the lack of political will, inadequate
funding, and graft and corruption. But these obstacles need to be
hurdled, as most problems that confront the country today may be blamed
on the lack of good governance. After all, the report stresses, good
governance does not only mean making public officials answerable to
the citizenry for their actions; it has other equally important elements.
These include enhancing the people's involvement in policy making;
instituting the equal application of laws, regulations and policies;
and making information available and accessible to the public. The
ADB found these elements to be absent in the various areas of governance
covered in its assessment.
Conducted over nearly three months, the governance assessment made
use of an extensive review of literature as well as focus group
discussions and interviews. It studied the following areas of governance:
The report includes figures, charts and tables that illustrate the main findings. Following are some of those tables:
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