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The Role of the Governance in Competitiveness Growth /Two Cases: Slovenia and Croatia/

The purpose of this paper is to analyse and explain the role of the governance in competitiveness growth in two small countries. Governance matters significantly in the last fifteen years and it became a key issue of strategies and policies for competitiveness growth and economic development, throughout the world. “Good” governance is just the part of the conditionality policies created by international organisations that throughout this concept standardised government’s functions. The strategic capability of the governments that govern the competitiveness building in a country, should be based on its governance competence in creating strategic vision, strategies, followed by policies, instruments and actions. In the first part of the paper the role of the governance in competitiveness growth would be analysed. The analysis would critically evaluate the concept of “good” governance. In the second part, comparative analysis of the governance quality in Slovenia and Croatia should be carried out. It will be based on the sub-indexes of the international competitiveness indexes (WEF, IMD), dealing with the quality of governance, and on the Worldwide Governance Indicators, both during the period 1996-2009. The third part of the paper will present the research results taken by authors (2008-2010). The research is based on the evaluation of the results of the questionnaires dealing with the problem of the governance and competitiveness growth in Croatia.

Governance; “Good” governance; Competitiveness growth; Governance

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