Well-designed, clear and enforceable agreements are essential to a complex collaborative endeavour such as development.
The website Better Regulation explains actions in the Better Regulation field, taken by the European Commission, other EU institutions as well as the EU Member States.
Inclusive development must reach and engage all members of society, in their diverse livelihoods.
Easy access to statutes, and to treaties with which they should be compliant, facilitate transparency of the political process, and a constructive dialogue among stakeholders. This will benefit the treaty and statute fit (are problems solved and have stakeholders been heard ?) and their adoption: stakeholders who have been able to participate in the political process are more likely to comply, as participation is likely to ensure a more fair access to benefits, and a better balance of burdens.
The coexistence of multiple treaties and statutes create difficulties in reconciling confusing or conflicting provisions. Those difficulties can be structurally reduced by engaging more stakeholders in the treaty and statute shaping, and by a culture of periodic reviews and subsequent statute improvement.
Structuring treaty and statute books by COFOG class supports the clustering of their provisions. The interactions and claims to which provisions pertain support an open and constructive dialogue with stakeholders, in the first instance, as represented by actors at the macro and meso level, listed in the Actor Map of each country.
Poor quality treaties and statutes pose significant constraints to development initiatives, for instance those listed at United States Initiative Book. Unlike other constraints, such as for instance the limited access to resources such as water and finance, the constraints to development imposed by unfit statutes are easy to remove, this is if there is the political will. The Initiative Books support mutual awareness of ongoing and forthcoming initiatives.
For the question and the answers it received, see: http://www.quora.com/U-S-Taxes/If-you-could-rewrite-the-entire-US-tax-code-what-would-the-new-version-consist-of
Jan Goossenaerts
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