Poverty Reduction

Good Governance for Poverty Reduction
Ensuring sound and pro-poor public sector management

The quality of governance is critical to poverty reduction. Since effective and efficient delivery of basic services by the public sector matters most to the poor, weak governance hurts them disproportionately.

Good governance is therefore one of the three pillars of ADB's Poverty Reduction Strategy [ PDF: 385kb | 51 pages ].

Good governance facilitates pro-poor sector reforms and state and local government policies, as well as sound macroeconomic management.

It ensures the transparent use of public funds, strengthens anti-corruption, encourages growth of the private sector and corporate governance, promotes effective delivery of public services, and helps to establish the rule of law.

Good governance involves the poor and non-government organizations (NGOs) in the planning and implementation of programs. It is closely linked to institutional and organizational capacity building and network relations.

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