The first Social Progress Index (SPI) report was released in 2013; a handful of studies examined the determinants of social progress at country level as an instrument in evaluating nation’s prosperity. This study focuses on determining the relationship between institutional quality measured by the World Governance Index (WGI) and social progress measured (SPI).The results are based on the secondary data from 107 countries over a four year period (2014-2017), after controlling Gross Domestic Product per capita, innovativeness and trustworthiness. The result was in favor of the fixed effect model. The findings illustrate that institutional quality was consistently significant in fostering social progress. This study is unique in that, it is the first that examined the role of formal institutional quality in promoting social progress at country level by using SPI as a measurement of social progress.

This study tries to deal with knowledge collaborative approach of relationship learning which is a strategic perspective entails of creating collective knowledge to demonstrate the role of inter-organizational learning through project-based organizations (PBOs). This helps in enhancing the abilities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in metropolitan areas witnessing duality in the legal framework under which these organizations operate, and how such circumstances affect NGOs operating in autonomous regions to maintain long-term linkages with their partners to achieve sustainable development. Based on a survey conducted from 146 respondents, we have illustrated that inter-organizational learning was significantly associated with building the capacity of NGOs to maintain long term linkages with international partners, as well as its significant relation-ship with obtaining sustainable performance. Moreover, the value creation has appeared to have a partial mediation role between inter-organizational learning and sustainable performance while legal framework seems to have a significant moderator role in hindering the relationship between interrelation learning and value creation.