Common Country Assessment: Jamaica
Common Country Assessment: Jamaica
January 25, 2014
Over the last fifty years, the standards and goals that are defined in United Nations’ conventions and treaties have had substantial influence on development policy and practice. In particular, they have underscored that ‘peace, security, human rights and development’ are ‘interdependent conditions for human progress” Moreover, successive conventions have reaffirmed that human beings must be the core concern of development, as opposed, for example, to abstract growth targets.