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Turning Development Upside Down
REFORMS NEEDED FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROGRESS
LESSONS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
based on the author's experience over a period of more than 40 years
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Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
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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INTRODUCTION
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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. WHY SO MUCH FAILURE?
When people know why there is failure, there is a greater potential for future success.
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WHY SO MUCH FAILURE?
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Chapter 4. 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 5. RESOURCES ARE AN ASSET
Resources are a lot more than money and material goods. They are human resources and natural resources as well as all the variety of resources that are the economic segment of the system.
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RESOURCES ARE AN ASSET
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Chapter 6. INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY - ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
What is institutional capacity ... the enabling environment? It is a lot more than just governance and government, the law and regulation? It is also the infrastructure and the social services like health and education, and the financial services. Institutional capacity may 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 7. HUMAN RESOURCES
People are the key to everything. They are the latent force and the limiting constraint.
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HUMAN RESOURCES
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Chapter 8. COMMUNITY FOCUS
Community is an important element in quality of life. Community is the best focus for development ... this is where people live and where quality of life matters. Community centric metrics show how effectively resources are being used, not only those from external sources, but also local resources.
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Chapter 9. ORGANIZATION / ORGANIZATIONS
There are two pieces: the idea of organization, and the organizations themselve which give structure to organization. What business organizations? What financial organizations? What professional organizations? What community organizations? What faith based organizations?
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Chapter 10. ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
The enabling environment incorporates everything needed to make a society and an economy productive and sustainable.
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Chapter 11. INFORMATION DIMENSION
There is lots of it, but it is not much use. Much of the information that is available about development has an enormously high cost, but dramatically smaller value. Value destruction at its best. Why is this information not help much in making good decisions about development. Why is so much data good for economic analysis and good material for journalists, but little use in the effective management of development resources. Where is the information to drive transparency and accountability?
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Chapter 12. POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY
The sector perspective should not be ignored ... but it is rare that the performancer of a single sector will be enough to improve the performance of society and the economy as a whole.
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Chapter 13. MULTI=SECTOR INITIATIVES
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. It is rare that the performancer 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.
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Chapter 14. AFTERWORD
Some thoughts written after the main text was written
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Chapter 14. AFTERWORD
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ANNEX 1 - CHAPTER OUTLINE
An aide-memoire to guide the development of the chapters ... incomplete
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ANNEX 1
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ANNEX 2 - 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 - ABOUT PETER BURGESS in its totality
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