Racial tensions, class inequalities and unreformed global institutions show that government leaders around the world are failing to deliver social cohesion, US thinktank chief Anne-Marie Slaughter has said.
Slaughter, president and chief executive of the New America Foundation, which focuses on US politics and prosperity in the digital age, said public leadership is unquestionably failing to deliver social cohesion and much else, during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on 21 January.
The Lisbon agenda, following a summit in 2000, focused on Europe's growth and competitiveness, meant to deliver jobs and social cohesion.
The European Regional Development and Cohesion Funds deliver major investment in times of economic crisis.
Inside the Union, we must boost cohesion and deliver the full potential of our recent and future enlargements.
At home, we must develop the capacity to govern effectively and deliver in order to guarantee internal cohesion with the full participation of citizens.
"We must develop the capacity to govern effectively and deliver in order to guarantee internal cohesion with the full participation of citizens," Kagame wrote in The WorldPost in 2014.
We must deliver tangible improvements in material living standards and greater social cohesion". The call for action urged governments to resist the temptation to resort to trade barriers in an attempt to safeguard jobs.
International Education Week and its sister, Global Enterprise Week (November 17-23), will both highlight how the global dimension can deliver on domestic agendas, such as Every Child Matters and community cohesion.
