Rethinking Development
The State, the market, and the societal forces all have a role to play towards improving the lives of the citizens. In as much as entrepreneurs and government institutions would always endeavor to improve their economic performance, they should also make an undertaking to ensure that social services are provided to the citizens. The state in particular has to ensure that it puts in place governance structures that work for the citizenry. It should ensure that health services, education, and security become its top priority (Allchin, 2013). The state should pass legislations that makes doing business less expensive. In that way private sector entities would have the capacity to engage in large-scale export oriented industrialization. This may be a ticket out of poverty for its citizens who may get gainful employment from these industries. Countries where people are economically empowered are less likely to experience high child mortality rates. Household poverty is also reduced especially when women have access to employment and education. These women can make long-term investment decision decisions like sending their children to school or saving.
Democratic governance is essential poverty alleviation. However, poverty in countries where democratic governance is practiced can only be eliminated when the performance element is integrated (Boato, 2007). Credible economic and political institutions that facilitate vibrant and productive economic activities leading to growth and development have to be instituted. State institutions have to be accountable and responsive (Boato, 2007). Democracy should be deepened and be made to deliver the desired benefits of social and economic well-being. Countries caught in widespread poverty should embrace good governance. In this way, they would establish credible institutions with transparent rules that are known, internalized, and enforced. Quality of economic and political institutions determines and affects the capacity of less developed countries to ensure economic diversification, transformation, growth, and development. With good governance the people have rights to own property and do business. It ensures that there are no expropriations (Boato, 2007). People are assured of the government's enforcement of the rules of the game. Honoring of contractual obligations is also predictable. Institutional credibility, in essence...
Juvenile Delinquency Impact of Poverty, Health Problems, Family Problems on Increase in Juvenile Delinquency? Juvenile delinquency and its causes have been studied extensively. Many factors that put adolescents at risk of becoming delinquent have been identified. The majority of youth who enter the child welfare system, and many of the youth who are caught up in the juvenile justice system have experienced abuse and neglect, dysfunctional home environments, destructive and inconsistent parenting
Mental Health Support for Inmates in For Profit Prisons The thesis of this project is: The prison industry needs to do a better job of addressing the mental health needs of prisoners. What makes this an issue is that, as Morgan et al. (2013) and Semenza and Grosholz (2019) show, the criminal justice system is not doing enough to treat the mental health issues of inmates. Instead of focusing on the mental
Sustainable Development - a Global Challenge Need for Change State Sovereignty Sustainable Development Challenges for Businesses The Role of MNCs in Sustainable Development The Global Compact Initiatives outside the Global Compact What is International Sustainable Development Law (ISDL)? International Environmental Law and its Impact on Australia Sustainable Development: A Global Challenge For many years, sustainable development has been one of the controversial issues faced by world leaders and citizens (Parmetier, 2002). The issue pervades both private and public sectors, and is
Crime is Not Just a Criminal Justice Issue Introduction The issue of mental health in the criminal justice system is important because, as Stringer (2019) notes, the US Department of Justice has admitted that nearly 40% of individuals in prison have a history of mental illness. Unfortunately, the criminal justice system does not appear to be focused on addressing the situation in a way that benefits people convicted of crime. The prison
For example, in discussing his childhood in "Southie" a poor neighborhood in Boston, Patrick MacDonald talks about the willful ignorance of the people in the neighborhood when he was a child. "They were all here now, all of my neighbors and friends who had died young from violence, drugs, and from the other deadly things we'd been taught didn't happen in Southie" (MacDonald, 1999, p.2). In other words, the
India was also part of this globalized trading world. The cities within the Indus Valley were well planned and included a trading system that was managed much in the same way as that in the Middle East. Indian socialism, combined with an economy of private managers played a significant role in the success of their trading endeavors. Moore & Lewis note that ancient India could well have been the inventor of
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