Grading Government Performance

Robert Muller, from '5000 Ideas & Dreams For A Better World' - Idea 53, September 1994:

"Children and students are graded for their performance and behavior. Why should not governments be graded too for their performance? A yearly performance report should be produced by the UN or by an outside organization similar to Amnesty International.

A Performance International can show for example:

• the number of years a country has lived in peace with others,

• violence statistics,

• ratification of international treaties,

• implementation of UN recommendations on a host of subjects (human rights, labor relations, the environment, etc.),

• disarmament, shifting of military expenditures to peaceful, productive and social services,

• demilitarization, etc.

Such a report would lead to a lot of good in the world."