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Thirst for Kliksberg Ethics - A heavyweight
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in Latin American societies in growing and promising process of democratization, a rising demand for more ethical. There
civil societies increasingly mobilized and are pushing for participatory total eradication of corruption, transparency, social control in public administration. But the request for ethical reasons not limited to the issue of corruption, going much further. It is demanding that the discussion on the economy returns to include the ethical plane. We propose that the region has opened ever more pressing challenges of high ethical content, including: widespread poverty (about 50% of the population is poor), the vulnerability of children (60% of children under 14 are in poverty) The deterioration of the family (30% of homes have been broken up under the onslaught of poverty), lack of opportunities for young people (the youth unemployment rate exceeds 20%), gaps in health (18% of all births occur without medical assistance), high levels of inequality considered a major cause of poverty (10% richest have 84 times the income the poorest 10%). All these situations violate basic ethical convictions of our societies.
Public opinion also calls for the main social actors take their ethical responsibilities. Calls for ethical behavior in the political leadership, social responsibility in business, full service commitment in public officials, ethics in the trade union, universities, NGOs.
society increasingly mature and mobilized states that it is the most elemental steal, stealing is intolerable, but along with this requires much more of an ongoing ethical debate about what kind of society we want, what should be the priorities in the allocation of limited resources, how to promote solidarity and the assumption of the biblical idea that we should be responsible for each other.
The ethical debate can reach concrete results. In the more developed societies and with better results as measured by the UN human development, such as Norway (first in 2002), Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Holland, and others, is a component key to their culture and development. An active discussion of this order can mobilize volunteers (great force in those countries), the social responsibility of private enterprise, strategic alliances between state and civil society. In this framework, the Bank has recently established American Initiative on Social Capital, Ethics and Development (http://www.iadb.org/etica/index.htm) to promote efforts in this direction. Several universities in the region begin to teach and research on ethics and development, and the OAS through the Educational Portal of the Americas are actively adding to the spread of this new agenda for discussion. You can not postpone this debate more essential. The Pope John Paul II has repeatedly raised visionary ethics required for the globalized world, and that in areas like Latin America, "poverty is something urgent that can not wait." Kliksberg
Coordinator
American Initiative on Social Capital, Ethics and Development Inter-American Development Bank
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