BURGESS BOOKS
FIXING FAILED DEVELOPMENT
Turning Development Upside Down
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER SUMMARIES
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Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION / WHY THIS BOOK?
This chapter answers some key questions. Why is this book being written? What does the writer hopes to achieve? It is time to make changes. It is time to do things differently so that there is sustainable progress. It is time for a paradigm shift. These are important issues ... this book is a starting point.
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Chapter 2. DEVELOPMENT HAS FAILED
Development has failed ... compared to what was possible, the achievements are pathetic. There are many reasons for failure ... none of them acceptable. It is time to make changes. It is time to do things differently so that there is sustainable progress. It is time for a paradigm shift. These are important issues ... this book is a starting point.
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Chapter 3. THERE ARE WAYS FORWARD
There are ways forward ... not one, but many. A single silver bullet is not the right approach ... rather there needs to be a use of resources that gets the most value for the society as possible. The way forward has several main components: more meaningful development data and metrics, a focus on community scale initiatives
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Chapter 4. NATURAL CAPITAL
Classical economists recognised the importance of land ... natural capital ... as an essential part of the means of production. Modern science supports the view that natural capital in all its manifestations is vital to the functioning of the modern world ... or indeed any world that can support human life.
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Chapter 5. KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge. What knowledge is there? Is everything known that needs to be known. How to stay up to date. How to train new people. How to update knowledge and be in the global knowledge community. How to get knowledge so that is used in the most valuable way?
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Chapter 6. HUMAN CAPITAL - THE PEOPLE PERSPECTIVE
There are many elements that go into making a positive enabling environment for development. When any of these elements are missing, the progress of development may be compromised, and in some cases there can be massive backsliding.
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Chapter 7. SECTOR PERSPECTIVE
The sector perspective is important and should not be ignored. However, it is rare that the performance of a single sector will be enough to improve the performance of society and the economy as a whole. In most cases performance in one area of the economy will be constrained by something in another part of the economy ... and an optimized performance will only be achieved by working with ALL the sectors of the society and economy
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Chapter 8. ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
What is the enabling environment? What is institutional capacity? It is a lot more than just governance and government, the law and regulation? It is also more than the infrastructure and the social services like health and education, and the financial services. The enabling environment may also be a major constraint on the socio-economic progress of the community. What is the underlying productivity of the community. If the community is surplus producing it can go forward and improve its quality of life ... otherwise it cannot. The concept is simple ... and explains the endemic economic and development failure that is pervasive on the planet.
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Chapter 9. ROLE OF ORGANIZATION
There are two pieces: one the idea of organization, and two, the organizations themselve which give structure to organization. What are the capabilities of existing organizations? What is needed so that they can do the maximum that they can do? What business organizations? What financial organizations? What professional organizations are there and what can they do? What community organizations? What faith based organizations and activities? How can people organize themselves in the best possible way so that they can progress. How can people organize so that they can best help themselves.
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Chapter 10. THE COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE
The value of 'community' has not been a priority for most of the last 100 years. This has been one of the reasons why quality of life has not improved as much as it could have given the amazing progress of technology.
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Chapter 11. MULTI-SECTOR LINKAGES
Massive improvements in productivity have become possible over the past several decades, but they have not been optimized in large part because of the many sector silos that constrain progress, not to mention the singular focus of financial performance to the exclusion of social and environmental impact.
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ANNEX 1 - ABOUT PETER BURGESS
Some background about Peter Burgess, the author of this book and the creator of the TrueValueMetrics initiative and a series of prior initiatives to further the making of a better world.
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ANNEX 2 - BURGESS BOOK MANUSCRIPTS
Peter Burgess has been a prolific writer. Burgess writings have evolved over the years reflecting both a process of learning and a rapidly changing world. While some trends have been positive, there are others which have been dangerously negative.
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