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The World Governance Index (WGI) is an indicator developed in 2008 by the Forum for a new World Governance (FnWG). It aims to provide, year on year, a precise image of the situation of world governance and of its evolution. Based on the picture it provides on where the world and its individual countries stand in terms of governance, this index is intended to allow those in charge of governance to raise the appropriate questions when thinking about solutions and remedies for what constitutes one of the major problems of the 20th century. == Background == If there is one topic that in the past 15 years or so that has been extensively written about, it is definitely world governance.〔"World governance" is also and often referred to as "global governance."〕 The magnitude of world governance is reflected by the exponential multiplication of books, articles, symposia, debates, and summits on its subject, whether to explore the many paths to it, to discuss the difficulties involved in it, or the requirements it brings to light.〔As testified by any Internet search, over 64,000 books have been published in English since the mid-1990s on the topic of world or global governance. As for journals or magazines that have featured articles on the subject, they include a broad variety, from mainstream magazines to specialized journals from all over the world on anthropology, democracy, atomic science, current affairs, etc. It is naturally a key topic for the G-20 and countless other meetings, international or not. The WGI described here was developed within an Internet-based research project called the (Forum for a new World Governance ) with funding from the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Humankind.〕 Developing a set of indicators in order to produce a World Governance Index (WGI) is a long and complex undertaking. The idea is to measure a contemporary concept which, in spite of the fact that it is historically rooted,〔See the first chapter of Global Governance on Wikipedia.〕 that there are frameworks in which it is currently applied, that it is implemented by identified actors,〔This includes, among others, the entire United Nations organization and the Bretton Woods institutions.〕 and that there is agreement on the diagnosis of its afflictions,〔Among several hundred converging diagnoses, see, for instance: (World Humanity Action Trust (2000), "Governance for a Sustainable Future", Reports of the Commissions of the World Humanity Action Trust, Russell Press Ltd., Nottingham (UK), p. 30 ); ( (2009), O'Hara, P.A. (ed.), "Public Policy and Political Economy", ''International Encyclopedia of Public Policy - Governance in a Global Age'', Vol. 3, Perth ); "Environmental governance" on Wikipedia; ("Current global governance systems lack capacity to deal with global risks" in ''Daily Financial Times'', Wijeya Newspapers Ltd. Colombo (Sri Lanka), January 14, 2011 ); etc.〕 it is as yet far from having been "stabilized." Basing their work on the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which was the subject of unprecedented U.N. consensus among the heads of state and government who adopted it in 2000, a team of researchers of the (Forum for a new World Governance (FnWG) ), made up of Gustavo Marín, Arnaud Blin, and Renaud François, focused its research on the five main concepts defining the application framework of world governance and constituting key goals to be reached by 2015: * Peace / Security * Democracy / Rule of Law * Human Rights / Participation * Sustainable Development * Human Development 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Governance Index」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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