On the list of factors keeping poor countries poor -- bad governance, war, natural disasters -- a prominent place must go to disease.
Next to the "natural driver," we attribute considerable importance to the "social driver" and identify social inequality, governance, war and conflict, and anthropogenic impact as different subclasses of drivers within the "social driver" class (Fig. 4).
Mohammad the Prophet, too, had to lead his followers where no one had gone before in terms of religion, governance, war and diplomacy.
The youth delegates focused on three sub-themes: poor governance, war and violence, and the unequal distribution of resources.
The Americans remain focused on attacking the symptoms rather than the disease itself, because fear is a powerful tool in U.S. governance, and war is a pillar of the U.S. economy.
Not surprisingly, the steep decline in prices, coupled with uncertainties about corporate governance, the war on terrorism, the economy and earnings have left investors "disheartened and insecure," said Thomas Galvin, chief investment officer at Credit Suisse First Boston.
They will have tentative grounds to hope for better governance and fewer wars.
This is especially so in Iraq, where poor governance, two prior wars, and years of international sanctions have combined to weaken the Iraqi population.
As the war dragged on, national elites found themselves compelled to include labour leaders in the governance of the war economy as managers of rising shop-floor discontent.
Many experts say this approach favored the spread of the most costly form of bad governance of all, war, which engulfed much of Africa a decade ago.
