One of the most important govern responsibility is to promote the well-being for its population. This can be achieved ensuring that law is fulfilled, order is assured and basic goods and public services are available to everyone. When legitimate laws are not the ones to guide Institutions, they tend to be less capable to deliver public services to population. Responsibility coverage is broad and affects countries in different perspectives and proportions. It is known that many countries fail in their purpose to promote the welfare for their population. According to the UN, corruption affect the Government’s ability to provide basic services, feeds inequality and injustice. Thus, the lack of government effectiveness compromises the development of countries. Early 2017 the Transparency International published the ranking of corruption perception in which 2/3 of countries are below 50 on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). The failure of national governance is pointed for World Bank as the main risk faced for Latin American and Sub-Saharan countries and is considered to be among the top three most likely risk in the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia and Pacific, and Central Asia countries. Due to its relevance, in September/2015, the UN launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Such initiatives, also known as Agenda 2030, foresee a series of targets to be implemented until 2030 by countries compromised with the sustainable development that signed Paris Agreement. In a total of 17 goals that cover areas of critical importance for humanity, such as planet, people, peace, prosperity, the highlight goes to SDG 16 entitled “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions”. In this context, the research aims to investigate the government effectiveness and its impact on the human being’s development. A quantitative approach was adopted for analysis. The use of HDI index, adopted by UN since 1990 to measure the human-being development in the countries, and World Governance Indicators (WGI), sustained by the World Bank since 1996, support the study. Preliminary results identified the existence of correlation between the government effectiveness and the countries’ human-being development. Results also indicate that countries with high levels of government effectiveness tend to have greater human-being development. The main contribution of this research lies on fomenting the debate, bringing actual perspectives on the subject and generating subsidies for the governmental efficiency improvement. The results can be used as a basis for future qualitative research, as well as for orientation of countries, state and municipalities, in the development of more effective tools for human development and efficiency of public power.
Keywords: human development; government effectiveness; sustainable development
