Government as a catalyst.

The government is an institution and in its exercise of economic, political and administrative power, it must act as a catalyst to development and modernization. Good governance is directly correlated to the concept of human development and its goals of reducing poverty, job creation and sustainability, sustainable environment and the promotion of women lead to development and modernization. The state is obliged to create an enabling environment that gives access to resources such as technology and materials thus ushering modernization, it is also obliged to maintain peace and order which can translate to stability that ushers in development. In terms of advancing the interests and welfare of the people especially the poor and women the state must empower these marginalized people by expanding the choices available to them, the state must cooperate though composed of independent structures these must coalesce interdependently in a lateral function, the state must have equity in its activities, giving no place particular preference. The state must also ensure sustainability, so that whatever advancements of the present may translate into the future and to the future generations, as well as ensuring security, a promise of safety economically, politically and socially. The state has a burden to act as an agent of development and modernization simply because as governing the interests of the people these are two plateaus of existence that they must aim to deliver on as they directly affect the quality of life of the people the state encompasses.