We must also make our own politics more democratic.

Now, what does this mean for our politics, for our public services, for our government?

But our policies most also be more consistent.

We have adopted the goals, targets and indicators as a reference framework for drawing up our public policies.

This is not due solely to our foreign policy, or even to dubious economic policies.

In Bhutan, we have made serious efforts to integrate the principles and practices of environmental sustainability into our development policies and programmes.

We get our monetary and fiscal policies right the same way that birds build their nests right.

If we are to get our policies right, it is crucial that we get our facts right.

Without a clear understanding of who gains and who loses from the status quo, it is difficult to make sense of our existing policies.

The soft issues of environment and climate will become the hard and strategic issues of the twenty first century.

If we are serious about our commitment to reduce poverty, we must ensure coherence in our own policymaking.

Disaster risk management, rather than ad hoc humanitarian issues, should become an integral part of our long term development policies.

Such an assessment was seen as an opportunity to provide our policymakers with accessible and authoritative information and advice as a basis for responsible decision making.

It demonstrates once again our vulnerability to natural phenomena and reminds us that we must incorporate disaster prevention and disaster risk reduction into our development policies.

We're being critical of the West, the perception of the West about our identity about the image that is constructed about us, about our women, about our politics, about our religion.

I deeply believe that life is a much greater adventure if we manage to do politics without the trench between the left and the right wing.

Our agricultural policies and practices are tailored to expansion capable of feeding our people, exporting some of the produce and providing raw materials for our industries.

Rather, I have invested in my civic education, because I no longer think that the problem with our politics resides in the governments we elect, but rather in the type of citizens and voters we have produced.

Responding to that widespread and noble sentiment, my Government has made development cooperation one of its hallmarks and one of the paramount values guiding its policies.

We should, instead, renew our commitment, individually and collectively, to the MDGs and to their full integration into our national domestic policies, international development strategies, policies and actions.

For now, our current climate policies are poor and our politicians consistently find ways to make them even poorer.

As far back as 1995 he said, It is this vision, of a resurgent India taking her rightful place as an economic powerhouse in Asia, which has inspired our economic policies.

When we began to draft social policy for young people in Nicaragua, we tried to ensure that we did so while making those policies part of other national social policies and, ultimately, overall State policy.

Now we all need to focus on the many, many ways technology can lead us back to our real lives, our own bodies, our own communities, our own politics, our own planet.

This has left the US not only deeply divided, but also at loggerheads with much of the rest of the world, which considers our policies high handed and arbitrary.

Those treaties lived in the shadow of our daily politics, imaginations, and media cycles. Diplomats trudged off to conferences year after year to implement them, but the main results were neglect, delay, and bickering over legalities.

But it was rightly felt that there was a huge amount of work to be done to raise average levels of achievement before one needed to start worrying that one s policies were promoting the survival of the unfit.

What is wonderful about the mobile miracle (I am not embarrassed to call it that) is that it has accomplished something that our socialist policies proclaimed but did little to achieve it empowered the less fortunate.

We must fight exclusion from our political parties, just as we fight exclusion in our societies. This means welcoming migrants and minorities, creating more opportunities for women and the disabled, and empowering citizens through education and participation.

Global warming should be tackled, but smartly through research and development of low carbon alternatives. If we are to get our policies right, it is crucial that we get our facts right.

Differences in innate ability were not denied (at least by the sensible). But it was rightly felt that there was a huge amount of work to be done to raise average levels of achievement before one needed to start worrying that one s policies were promoting the survival of the unfit.