摘要：Governance and governing are two distinct concepts, but they intertwine. “Good governing”exercises good influence on development. “Good governance” supposes first a relationship of powerfocused on a series of reforms structured at three levels: the political – administrative level, theeconomic level, and the level of civil society. As this dimension is difficult to measure, the qualitativeevaluation of the governing act raised the interest of the World Bank researchers, who elaborated andmonitored the dynamics of a set of indicators, which includes six major dimensions of the governing. Aretrospective concerning the image of governing in Romania during the period from 1996 to 2005suggests a modest increase of the score: from -0.138 (1996) to 0.008 (2002); that was partially achievedbased on the voice and responsibility index and on the political stability index, not on those thatmeasure more directly the administrative performance or the integrity of the governing act. For acomparative study, we chose seven countries for the purposes of analysis (two new European Unionmember states: Romania and Bulgaria; two older member countries of the European Union: Sloveniaand Latvia; three non-member states: Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia), which reveal the quality of thegoverning from a comparative perspective. Corruption control completes the image created by theanalyzed indicators. The mere formal accomplishment of commitments made in the pre-accessionactivity, doubled by recent internal evolutions, bring doubts about the credibility of the anticorruptionreforms, as Romania continues to be considered the country with the highest CPI in the EuropeanUnion. The pessimism of public opinion and the fact that only 34% of the Romanian people considerthat the level of corruption will decrease in the following three years constitutes an alarm signaladdressed to the governance, in view of the real reformation of the administration system, of giving asense of responsibility to the public and private sectors, of imposing, observing and materializing a realcommitment for preventing and fighting corruption, the risk of which may be a threat to nationalsecurity. Human governance creates a favorable environment for human development and eliminationof poverty. If the preoccupations of the governance institutions are centered on the interests, needs, andfundamental rights of the population, progress may be achieved in the fight against poverty. If acountry tries to apply economic policies in order to promote a beneficial increase to the poor ones,along with programs meant to help reach the targeted goals, the effects may be attenuated or annulled,when the governance institutions are ineffective or passive. The conclusion is that the governance is themissing link between the efforts of struggle against poverty and reaching the objective of povertyreduction.
