AN EVALUATION OF GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The problems of development require moral assessment or ethical reflection. Development has a definitional difficulty; it constitutes a multifaceted form and it aims at human improvement and economic efficiency. Development seeks to address global economic equality, hunger, human deprivation through a more viable alternative of policy components. Development requires economic growth, human well-being, scientific, technological and the existing possibility of the framework of political superstructure. This paper shall analyze the economic implications, policy components of development on the   human well -being. This paper appreciates and appropriates the many-sided process of development which is aimed at better human living condition. Development has been misconstrued to be an economic term. This paper adopts the analytical framework and tends to critically examine and clarify development as an economic, scientific, social, cultural, technological and a political term. Development is an integral process of human betterment. Development indicates that human beings are determined to take their collective good as their most basic priority. Development is both personal and comprehensive. Good governance and development or sustainable development is inextricably linked. Without gooddemocratic governance there would be no good dynamics of leadership structure. Development is borne out of the need for resolving the problems of human wellbeing. This paper therefore, concludes that good governance and development strategies remain the major objective of every nation. African governments must critically search into the conceptualization of development and its economic implications to the African peoples. Development is characterized by the policy components of every Nation-State.