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Market as a world view, and thus the retrenchment of the state.
Within the state sector itself, many of the principles of "Good Governance" are
therefore identical with NPM. And while a unitary definition of the concept never
existed, not even within the respective individual IFI's, "good" principles usually
encompassed such concepts as transparency, efficiency, participation, responsibility,
and market economy, state of law, democracy, and justice. Many of them are
indubitably "good" as such, but all of them except the last one, which is the most
abstract are heavily context-dependent, hinging not only on definition and
interpretation, but also on time and place. Critics from the "developing" countries
thus often saw and see the demand for "Good Governance" as a form of Neo-
Colonialist Imperialism and as part of negative Globalization, since it demands the
creation of institutions and structures before economic development, while all wealthy