Governance and sustainable development: How effective is governance?

Sustainable development argues that the current use of resources should minimize the level of harm to the future use of resources. Governance is capable of common sense and the versatile planning that is required for sustainable development. In the literature, the relationship between governance and sustainability has been empirically examined in terms of the rule of law, bureaucratic quality and corruption. However, governance is a versatile variable that contains such variables as pluralism, accountability, political stability and the absence of violence and government effectiveness. According to the results from estimates obtained in the study, governance has an important and positive effect on sustainable development. This powerful effect applies to all developed and developing countries. Thus, to prevent resources from becoming scarce, countries should increase their governance levels. Accordingly, the level of welfare will be protected.