Sometimes, Changes can be very difficult but highly necessary for a healthy living. Whether in our lifestyles as human or our "health" as a nation.
It looks to me that happenings since 2015 for instance is a far cry from how we used to live or how we would like to.
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It looks to me that happenings since 2015 for instance is a far cry from how we used to live or how we would like to.
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Mahatma Gandhi, a nonviolent politician and leader of India's nationalist movement for 25 years before independence in 1947, was an early advocate OF SMALL-SCALE DEVELOPMENT in LDCs. He emphasized that harmony with nature, reduction of material wants, village economic development
Handicraft production, decentralized decision making, and labours intensive, indigenous technology were not just more efficient, but more humane. For him, humane means for development were as important as appropriate ends. Perhaps he was right, at least to a larger extent.
Many economists over the years have become increasingly frustrated at the limited impact economic growth has had in reducing third-world poverty. These economists think that programs to raise productivity in developing countries are not adequate unless they focus directly on
Meeting the basic needs of the poorest 50-60 percent of the population. In the 1970s, Some Latin American Roman Catholic radicals, French Marxists, and scholars sympathetic to China's Cultural Revolution (1966 - 76) rejected economic growth tied to dependence on western-type
Techniques, Capital, institutions, and elite consumer goods. These scholars believed that the LDCs should control their own Economic and Political destiny and free themselves from domination by western capitalist countries and their elitist allies in the third world.
According to them , the model for genuine development were not countries such as USA, UK and Brazil, but Maoist China, Cuba, and Singapore which stressed Economic and Political autonomy, holistic development of human beings, the fulfilment of human creativity, and SELFLESS
SERVING OF THE MASSES RATHER THAN THE INDIVIDUAL INCENTIVES AND THE PRODUCTION OF MATERIAL GOODS. These radicalists believed that the LDCs would have to rely increasingly on their EXERTIONS, both individual and collective, and to reoriented their development strategies, which
Must BENEFIT FROM THE LESSONS OF PAST EXPERIENCE. ADJUSTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES SHOULD BE PREPARED, AND SEEN TO BE PREPARED, BY NATIONAL AUTHORITIES OF LDC LIKE NIGERIA RATHER THAN BY FOREIGN ADVISORS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. OTHERWISE COMMITMENT WILL BE LACKING.
These scholars also stressed that Africa and other LDCs should reject economic growth tied to dependence on western-type techniques, capital, institutions (IMF) and elite consumer goods. In the U.S, Founders shaped by Scientific and intellectual activity of the Enlightenment,
wrote the Declaration of Independence, " We hold these truth to be self evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. " The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights goes beyond such civil and political rights as
fair trial, universal adult vote, and freedom from torture to include the rights of employment, minimum wages, collective bargaining, social security, health and medical care, free primary education and other social economic rights. In fact, for many in the 3rd world, the
fulfilment of economic needs precedes a concern with political liberties. In Africa, there's a saying, "Human Rights begins with breakfast.
You can't run faster than your shadows; Before you can develop as a nation, you will have to embrace your own uniqueness, peculiarities,
You can't run faster than your shadows; Before you can develop as a nation, you will have to embrace your own uniqueness, peculiarities,
climate, nature and environment and rely extensively on your own homegrown
techniques( crude or refined), vision, mission and ideology to further advance economically, politically and socially. These is how Russia, India, United States of America, China, Singapore, South Korea
techniques( crude or refined), vision, mission and ideology to further advance economically, politically and socially. These is how Russia, India, United States of America, China, Singapore, South Korea
etc improved their economy; by relying on homegrown local techniques and ideology to further develop their economy, not by copying what earlier advance economy did. Even some beggar in one of Bertolt Brecht's opera sings, "First we must eat, then comes morality".
Every country has her own uniqueness and challenges which they must address in today's world. For example; Some LDCs may have to reallocate resources from consumer goods for the well-off to basic necessities for the whole population. However, even with substantial redistribution,
resources are too scarce to attain these social and economic rights for the masses in most low income countries.
Let's consider the rights of free primary education,. Most low income countries like naija have less than one-tenth the PPP💲 GNP per capita of The United States of A,
Let's consider the rights of free primary education,. Most low income countries like naija have less than one-tenth the PPP💲 GNP per capita of The United States of A,
2 times the population share aged 5-15 and greater shortage of qualified teachers, all of which means a much greater share of GNP has to be devoted to education to attain the same enrollment rates as in the U.S of A. Far less income would be left over for achieving other
objectives such as adequate nutrition, housing & creating jobs; what I'm trying to say is country's peculiarities often affect their policy decisions. Yes! Self-reliance does not mean isolation from global economy. Argument are rifed albeit correctly that developing countries wen
Receiving funds and assistance from DCs and international agencies, should be in charge of their planning and development so that they can benefit from learning through experience.
The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's emphasis, on broadening choice rather than freedom from external
The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's emphasis, on broadening choice rather than freedom from external
Domination, has some overlap with the Liberationists'.
Sen argues that freedom (not development) is the ultimate goal of economic life as well as the most efficient means of realizing general welfare.
Sen argues that freedom (not development) is the ultimate goal of economic life as well as the most efficient means of realizing general welfare.
Gandhi's vision inspired many followers, including the late E.F. Schumacher, ironically a British Economist who in 1973 stressed that LDCs need TECHNIQUES AND POLICIES APPROPRIATE TO THEIR CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, ABUNDANT LABOUR so this means that Nigeria will have to rely on her
policies designed by Nigerians for Nigerians on the accounts of today's peculiarities, not what China or India did.
Mao Zendeng was largely influenced by Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin's ideology otherwise referred to as Marxist-Lenin ideology which partly failed Mao's China
Mao Zendeng was largely influenced by Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin's ideology otherwise referred to as Marxist-Lenin ideology which partly failed Mao's China
but largely benefited today's PR of China in the area of self- sufficiency, inclusive growth and promotion of local technological growth.
Lessons; you can't divulge today's economy from past policies. Vladimir Lenin's ideology is what gave rise to yesterday's Soviet Union and
Lessons; you can't divulge today's economy from past policies. Vladimir Lenin's ideology is what gave rise to yesterday's Soviet Union and
Today's socialist Russia. Because border closer which addressed many Mao's China's concerns like colonization by western world, sovereignty, resource control, opium war,trade also caused deaths & famine doesn't mean it will fail Nigeria. Again... PECULIARITIES,ENVIRONMENT,CULTURE
