Ten tips to get a good country
I have read a very interesting article by Carlos Alberto Montaner in the daily newspaper. It refers to what is meant by good governance globalized. Montaner cited ten measures that must play a modern government to make progress and let its people to live in freedom and development.
The ten points Montaner point as those that identify a developed country are:
- Avoid hand over to the state bureaucracy the control of the economy. They are clumsy.
- The currency must be strong to allow savings. This basically requires good management of public finances.
- English is the language of globalization and the computer is the most commonly used vehicle. Encouraging these two things is the duty of local authority.
- All things that benefit the transfer of technology and knowledge are positive, which are damaging them are negative.
- The operation of state and private companies should be transparent and should be accessible to the audits.
- Among the worst enemies of prosperity is the discretion of public officials that allow them to reward friends and punish enemies.
- The main function of the state is not charity but exercise to purposely create conditions in which people can currently make progress on their own.
- Inviting foreign capital and leave the economic nationalism.
- Promoting investment in human capital abroad.
If we can celebrate or criticize each government decision considering their guidance by this ten precepts, I think that each country could be more serious.
