1. We want the world's population to live and fulfill their needs on a sustainable, continuous and permanent footing; their subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, creation, recreation, identity and freedom needs by means of being, having and doing. We want political, economic and financial systems that favor the efficiency of multiple and complex satisfiers of human needs.
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REDACCIÓN LIGERAMENTE MEJORADA QUE SE PROPONE: Queremos que toda la población mundial pueda vivir y realizar sus necesidades de forma sostenible, continua, y permanente. Queremos que toda la población mundial o al menos un alto porcentaje de ella, tenga cubiertas sus necesidades básicas de subsistencia, protección, afecto, comprensión, participación, autoestima, recreo, identidad, y libertad, mediante el ser, el tener, el hacer, y el estar. Queremos que los sistemas político-administrativo, económico, financiero, y social, coadyuven en pro de los múltiples y complejos satisfactores de las necesidades humanas, a lo largo y ancho del planeta.
Ideas are good but need to be worded more simply and powerfully.2. We want new economic indicators, measuring sustainable human and social development. The main indicators of a country should be: the level of human development (UN's HDI), their level of Basic Human Needs satisfaction (BHN Indicator), the level of Social Development (SD Indicator).
3. We want to measure economic activity through a ""True Progress Indicator"" (TPI), which should only measure the economic activities that generate well being, deducting the environmental and social costs from all economic activity.
Newer seen such "True Progress Indicator"" (TPI)neither know its contents and measurability! does it includes shadow economy and intellectual potential measurements?4. We want to change the measures for economic prosperity from production-based measure such as GDP to well-being measure such as Gross National Happiness.
Both are measuring different processes and can't change one another: Gross National Happiness is not the measure for economic prosperity but for social prosperity or social sustainability.5. We believe there is an urgent need to develop more robust measures of economic well-being that correct for the most obvious drawbacks in using the GDP. These new measures will need: to account more systematically for changes in the asset base; to incorporate welfare losses from inequality in the distribution of incomes; to adjust for the depletion of material resources and other forms of natural capital, to account for the social costs of carbon emissions and other external environmental and social costs; and to correct for positional consumption and defensive expenditures.6. We believe that the evaluation of the economic well-being should be balanced by the three different types of economic realms: monetized exchange of services and goods, community-wide transactions of local goods and products by local currency, and self-consumption. Modernization has forced all to unify, as if people are part of an economic system governed by multinationals. This has been compensated by wage level and job opportunities. This system has lost the value of work other than a monetized one expressed by wage.7. We want basic economic terms such as ""productivity"" and ""costs"" to be redefined to include different work conditions, such as: the ""love economy"" of which women worldwide are a part of, the work done in “social cooperatives”, the work of marginalized groups in shadow economies, as well as including everything that nature gives for ""free.""8. We want national budgets to reflect our basic social values and be invested in life and its maintenance (i.e. health, education, community welfare, cultural activities …).9. We want to empower the poorest to enable their access to food, health, education, housing and resources (credit – micro-credit - and/or employment and/or land), thus opening opportunities for the impoverished. For this we must regulate and restrict the market economy as much as possible in the areas of human development, where State actors and social-community must play a more active role to ensure universal access and quality at all costs.10. We want economics to be about the maximization of human well-being and not the maximization of profit. Hence economic growth should reach the extreme poor so that they too can have social protection. One way to promote the maximization of human well-being is to reduce military spending. World military spending in 2009 was $1.53 trillion. Imagine this huge amount being used instead to finance sustainable livelihoods, education, health care, housing and environmental protection.11. We believe that the function of the Economy is to ensure the provision of basic needs of people without compromising their self-respect and freedom of choice.12. We consider it should be countries to manage in a sustainable manner their natural resources for the benefit of their own people, not the dominant global oligopolies.13. We believe that the planet's resources must serve, in the first instance, the fight against hunger, malnutrition and poverty, as well as compensate for the destruction of natural resources and habitats, the basis for a sustainable development.14. We believe that investments in infrastructure and public services should be generally reinforced. Labor income, along with investments in social and environmental development, should prevail over of shareholders' profits. The right to work and food must be guaranteed. Public employment must be increased to thwart instability.
15. We believe that basic needs should be guaranteed by the common goods, i.e. there should be free access to land, seeds, water and clean air. There should be no patents on life. Knowledge, technology and research should also be part of the Commons, as well as local transport systems and free access to all other commodities of general interest.16. We consider that any attempt to privatize public property must be stopped and the trend of selling everything that belongs to the Commons must be reversed. Social security systems and public policies must be defended and extended and specific policies must meet housing needs both in the South and in the North.Go to the next forum "New Objectives for the Economy"
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Algunas de estas recomendaciones son en extremo importantes. Nuevos indicadores de actividad así como beneficios o penalizaciones ligados a determinados emprendimientos, son de vital importancia poner operativos, para por la vía dineraria introducir sesgos de protección al medio ambiente ecológico y social, suavizando así los rigores de beneficios salvajes procurados siempre crecientes y a toda costa.
Written by J.Elissalde at 16 / 11 / 2010
the Social scientests must be given more worth and role in designing new indicaters for economic prosperity. according to me as Sociologist the family relationships and relationships between local governments and masses for the common good of the masses are the basic indicators in this regard.
Written by M.Sabir at 17 / 11 / 2010
One of the main indicator of economy is wealth management(W.M) to provide the condition of success for Wealth Management so as the economy is built on the accumulation of knowledge rather than capital accumulation.
Written by dr. bakhita at 07 / 12 / 2010
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