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Date Posted: 12:09:53 02/16/00 Wed
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Re: A Method for Solving Problems (Food for Thought)
In reply to: 's message, "A Method for Solving Problems (Food for Thought)" on 07:22:15 02/16/00 Wed

Thanks for this posting, I think it describes the current situation well. Here are my comments below..

> >
> *Focus on helping small producers in the developing
> world upgrade their businesses in economically and
> environmentally sustainable ways.
>
COMMENT-first you have to consider the environment where the economic activities are taking place, and what are the underlying reasons for the current obstacles. Too often we take the first, most apparent obstacle, and never see the underlying, more important ones. Thus, our solutions aren't solutions and they fail to work, or to be captured by the people we work with.


> *Do this by sharing the industrialized world's most
> valuable asset: its technical knowledge of how to
> improve product quality, add value to products through
> innovation and better promotion, expand and streamline
> production, and create links with new and larger
> markets. This, not grants or hand-outs, will lead to
> higher incomes in the developing world.
>
COMMENT-Doesn't this mean factories, including sweat shop factories as found in Asia? Doesn't it mean efficient, cheap transport over flatterrain that PNG simply does not possess? Aren't there major, major obstacles which have always been present? Hasn't PNG's isolation been due in great part to our terrain, and doesn't this terrain continue to be a major, major obstacle?

> *Link loans and investments to business planning
> assistance: Money with no business plan is wasted; a
> plan that lacks money won't get off the ground.
>
COMMENT-In PNG most people are a hell of a long ways from even considering a business plan. All this assumes a great deal of capacity that doesn't exist. I would guess it would be decades before we reach that point. Aren't first things first?

> *Implement this strategy on a massive scale.
>
COMMENT-Implementation on a massive scale only worries me, because the whole world is not the same. Generalised planning is like what communist countries did. This seems like a hurry up strategy that could easily fall flat on its face. You need a foundation before you can build a house, but this hell bent move towards free economies aren't building foundations, they're already starting to make the house frame, while hungrily awaiting the furniture to be delivered.

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