PSY 145 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Human Security, Global Governance, Psych
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Impact of the human development report: the human development report"s effect on public policy debate has exceeded expectations. The research now circulates about 100,000 copies in 13 languages. The thesis has been recommended as a text in most leading universities-a tribute to the professional quality. Human development study is its intellectual independence and professional integrity its courage rather than its science. It hasn"t hesitated to bring forward very explicitly negative evidence. Rather than hiding them in generalized generalizations, it has opted to identify individual country relationships both successes and failures. This has quantified democratic progress and even attempted for a brief period to score countries through political independence. Many governments and their representatives abroad do not like being assaulted by media reports. What irks them even more is when ngos and the media pick up on the problems found in the study and put pressure to improve their own governments.
