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There are compelling reasons to care about whether the quality of governance is good across the country. For the good of our own people and for the sake of our common aims, the capacity of weak states to govern should be strengthened because a country that is well governed are both less likely to be violent and are less likely to be poor. A country that protects human rights and promotes inclusion is less likely to have citizens who are alienated and are outside the state system...; enough to turn to violence as a means of addressing their problems. And a country where the poor have a voice in their government is more likely to invest in national policies that reduce poverty. When people’s interests, needs and human rights are at the center of governance institutions and practices, there can be real progress in combating poverty. Good governance provides the setting for equitable distribution of benefits from growth. In short, more peaceful and more prosperous nations contribute to a more peaceful and more prosperous world.Also critical to human development performance are characteristics in a society that are more difficult to quantify but are more revealing. These include access to services; participation in decision making; income disparities; equality of opportunities; level of employment; economic growth by community; health and education indicators; and human security. This is why it is important to disaggregate, wherever possible, human development indicators so that they reveal development disparities along the basis of ethnicity, gender, age or other basis.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:08:53 +0000

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