To generate optimal development levels across the entire planet - wery acadamic and unclear contents. Does it means to give drinking water to Sahara and cheaper oil for cars in Europe? or some unified live standards around the the world?
Conviene diferenciar los limites ecosistemicos del crecimiento economico como restriccion objetiva para la humanidad de los aspectos tecnologicos e institucionales de la actual crisis global, que incluye el fin del ciclo del tandem industria automotris - motor a explosion con conmbustibles fosiles, por un lado, y la crisis de las instituciones pactadas al final de la II Guerra Mundial
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No se si seguimos filosofando sobre los impactos del desarrollo. El último sismo de Chile, que no es un supuesto, es una realidad no nos daría tiempo para hacerlo. Nos estamos desangrando, hay dos cosas que se puede hacer: nos ponemos investigar cuánto de hemoglibina se pierde o aplicamos el torniquete. Por lo tanto, solo tenemos que sacarnos la venda de los ojos o escuchar el mensaje de la naturaleza para acercarnos a una vida donde la relación del hombre con la naturaleza sea más armónica. económico e
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La humanidad continúa sin resolver problemáticas humanas como son las relaciones de poder entre mujeres y hombres, aún cuando las mujeres somos soporte del crecimiento económico, social, político y cultural todavía no se reconoce ni se valora ¿tendrán que pasar dos siglos más?
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Cierto, si se lograra un muy buen consenso a nivel internacional, muchas cosas cambiarían y mejorarían. Pero atención, las actividades del narcotráfico generan perjuicios y costos muy elevados, tanto directos como indirectos, y principalmente las cúpulas de los carteles del narcotráfico así como las bocas de venta de drogas, son como una aspiradora de recursos financieros. De modo similar, la corrupción, los acomodos, la especulación, los contratos estatales maquillados, se apropian y desvían recursos en sumas demasiado importantes, exageradamente importantes. Los problemas globales nunca podrán ser resueltos si la implementación de las posibles soluciones deben convivir con esa impresionante sangría de recursos generada por los desvíos recién anotados, pues nuestra sociedad no es viable en esa situación, y porque nuestro planeta no lo aguanta.
Para manejar consensos, para implementar cambios de rumbo en producción, consumo, atención global de necesidades básicas, se necesita hacer un esfuerzo muy importante, y ello no lo podemos cumplir si se debilita al cuerpo social con las injustas sangrías recién enumeradas.
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Having worked for many years in development field particularly peoples organisations I firmly believe that development was coined to do business as usual. The development workers who come to our part of the world as experts basically come to recreate the neoliberal models and take away the spunk that is in civil society movements. So basically I no longer believe that there is an intention to develop for when our part of the world develops resources will dry up and there will be no jobs for the so called developers.
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F.Alloo at 31 / 03 / 2010
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en effet, le concept développement doit être redéfini , intégrant une approche globale incluant l'accès aux droits sociaux, économiques, culturels, civils et politiques ainsi que les droits environnementaux
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admitting that grwoth is still preponderantm, this is not quote true as other measures have estbalished themselves or have ben proposed.
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F.Afid at 09 / 04 / 2010
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The objective of development should be improvement in the quality of life of all, not just economic growth which sacrifices the human dimension. People should be at the center of global development efforts. Human security needs to be a primary objective of ever-widening process of globalization.
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Development is not only economic, social, cultural and more, it is also participation in what happens to you in your local context. It is pride to use your own human creativity and perspective in building a world larger that you
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R.Engo at 12 / 04 / 2010
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We need at the start to make the essential distinction between growth which is quantitative and development which is qualitative. Our present system is largely quantitative, but has also qualitative aspects. We cannot throw the baby with the bath water. A massive work is needed to determine what is good and can be kept, and what is bad and should be gotten rid of. It is imperative to abolish financial speculation that creates only profits for those who are already rich, and does not create any goods and services, except well-paid employment for traders, etc.
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Z.Ergas at 08 / 06 / 2010
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Economic growth is fine, provided everyone has his or her needs met - access to the food and water needed to sustain life and the ability to sustain communities. However, capitalist economic growth has been forced upon countries and communities as a way of controlling the poor. This kind of growth and "development" will never reach everyone due to inequality in education and other resources.
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C.Dann at 14 / 06 / 2010
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I agree that development has in the past been equated too much with economic development with GDP,GNP as major indicators. However, this has been widely recognised as deficient and other indicatos that take human development such as education, health life expectancy have been taken into account as in the UNDP Human development Index for example. So many other attempts have been made to indicate other values such as good governance and levels of corruption as in the Tranparency International's Corruption Percention Index. Other attempts made include measures of happiness. Some have suggested meaures of natural resource conservation etc.
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It does not appear like Africa especially, has been factored in the matrix of "generating optimal development levels". Neither the champions of this development theoram nor the African governments seem to seriously consider Africa as part of the planet for which optimum development is intended, whether measured in terms of economic growth or any other measure. There seems to be a global consensus of perpertuation and maintenance of the status quo of Africa's underdevelopment which has existed since the colonial era. Only drastic transformation of mind-sets, institutions, structures, systems, can relieve Africa and Africans from the consequences of the global crisis. Similarly, only such a transformative order can, and would liberate the women of Africa who bear the full brunt of the injustices and inequalities created by the prevailing "development" order.
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Among the various propositions in this topic, I feel more strongly aligned to this one due to the emphasis that it places on the effectiveness of the global "development" project and what it has meant to humanity and the ecology. Millions of dollars have been spent on "developing" the third world since the so-called development decades. Half a century of these efforts have produced some results, undeniably. Unfortunately, the bottom line is still that poverty persists, the environment is more polluted than ever, violence simmers and flares at an uncontainable scale. Add to that an erosion of the enjoyment of civil liberties and the rollback of democratic governance in many cases, a sad countering of the gains many societies made during the 1990s, at the end of the cold war and a decade or so of relative economic prosperity. The effort therefore must be equal to the challenge. And while efforts indeed have been made, a critical point must be turned in order to make development people-centered, rights-based and sustainable. We have all the concepts and robust technical ability to make change sustainable but the limiting factors (corruption, inequity of power distribution in global governance, a United Nations and other mechanisms still in need of reform, to name a few) need to be addressed. The question is how, and by whom?
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