Increasing Quality of Life as the Goal for Development of Latvia

Raising the quality of life for each individual has been approved by Saeima (Parliament) of Latvia as the basic goal for development of the country. Several valuable factors – welfare, security, sustainability – forms human's quality of life in the broader sense of this concept. As a multi-dimensional issue quality of life in Latvia's case depends on a series of closely linked both internal and external domains. Approved growth model for Latvia defines that the main resource to achieve increasing quality of life is the collective knowledge and wisdom of Latvia's inhabitants, and the ability of each individual to make use of this resource. General inclusion of all residents of the country becomes a principal precondition for improvement of the quality of life. In achieving our goal we must make use of coordinated and balanced development of each domain of quality of life, taking into account the unity of activities and following the boundary spanning principle. Practical activities have been started to implement the model.