[GJM] Lessons we can learn from the poor
robert searle
dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 11 06:47:13 MDT 2008
Dear Muhammad,
I agree entirely with your basic reform proposals. However, using interest free loans as far as the financial dimension is concerned is NOT enough to create change as fast as possible. Only Transfinancial Economics can do that along with interest free loans.
Robert Searle. http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Transfinancial_Economics
--- On Wed, 11/6/08, Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam <mukhtaralam2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam <mukhtaralam2000 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [GJM] Lessons we can learn from poor
> To: discussion at globaljusticemovement.net, dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk
> Cc: ami at taconic.net, "mary rose" <maryrose333 at att.net>, "Center For Ecological Audit Social Inclusion and Governance" <ceasig at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 11 June, 2008, 1:35 PM
> Barak Obama and all need to work on the following:
>
> -reforming finance sector through creating interest free
> loans
> -transforming leisure use pattern through adoption of faith
> based measures such as prayer and meditation and replacing
> GHG emitting energy intensive leisure
> -land reforms for ensuring distributive justice for
> renewable resource based livelihoods
> -promoting ecologically sustainable buildings and villages,
> habitats
> -using ecological audit for all consumption and production
> patterns
>
>
> --- On Wed, 11/6/08, robert searle
> <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> From: robert searle <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [GJM] Lessons we can learn from poor
> To: discussion at globaljusticemovement.net
> Date: Wednesday, 11 June, 2008, 5:49 PM
>
> --- On Wed, 11/6/08, Thompson Ayodele
> <thompson at ippanigeria.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Thompson Ayodele
> <thompson at ippanigeria.org>
> > Subject: Lessons we can learn from poor
> > To: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk
> > Date: Wednesday, 11 June, 2008, 10:31 AM
> > Cal Thomas, a well-known syndicated columnist in
> the U.S,
> > whose column is
> > published by 400 papers mentions IPPA Nigeria work
> in his
> > review of
> > "Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the
> Entrepreneurial
> > Spirit."
> >
> > ...In Nigeria, a clothing design industry has been
> created
> > to produce and
> > sell adire attire, traditional in the Yoruba
> culture. There
> > are thousands
> > of adire workers, most of them women with little
> or no
> > education, but they
> > have "an entrepreneurial drive to make a
> living and
> > create wealth where
> > there was previously only misery," writes
> Thompson
> > Ayodele in his essay.
> > "These entrepreneurs receive no government
> aid. In
> > fact, through action or
> > omission, the government has placed and continues
> to place
> > many obstacles
> > in their way. Yet they have been able to combat
> poverty
> > much more
> > effectively than foreign aid and official
> poverty-reduction
> > programs."
> >
> >
> > Cal Thomas | Tribune Media Services
> > June 9, 2008
> >
> >
> > Listening to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
> repeat
> > stories they claim to
> > have been told by the poor and the unemployed, who
> are
> > unable to pay for
> > food and medicine and feel miserable about it, is
> enough to
> > make one think
> > we are living in a Third World dictatorship and
> not the
> > United States of
> > America. But victimhood and a "can't
> do"
> > spirit is what the Democratic
> > Party has mostly been about since the Great
> Depression.
> >
> > A more positive narrative comes from a new book,
> > "Lessons from the Poor:
> > Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit,"
> edited by
> > Alvaro Vargas Llosa and
> > published by the Independent Institute. The book
> is an
> > optimistic triumph
> > and a lesson about the unlimited capacity of the
> human
> > spirit, properly
> > inspired and unencumbered.
> >
> > In the introduction, Llosa writes,
> "Entrepreneurial
> > ability and energy are
> > present almost everywhere. But in those countries
> that
> > still languish in
> > backwardness, the labyrinth intervention of the
> state and
> > the absence of
> > adequate institutions have kept that ability and
> energy
> > from translating
> > into full development." He writes of nations
> that used
> > to be poor but are
> > no longer, detailing how their people climbed out
> of
> > poverty. He blames
> > political, legal (and I would add in some cases,
> religious)
> > systems for
> > stifling prosperity.
> >
> > Llosa is about creating wealth and his
> inspirational
> > stories about real
> > people and how they did it ought to be read in
> every school
> > and in every
> > home that has accepted inevitable failure.
> >
> > In 1988, the Ananos family of Ayacucho, Peru --
> the cradle
> > of the Maoist
> > terrorist organization known as Shining Path --
> founded the
> > Kola Real
> > Company. Coca Cola and Pepsi had pulled out due to
> the
> > unstable political
> > situation. In just 20 years the Ananos family has
> > transformed a mom and pop
> > operation into the biggest transnational
> manufacturer of
> > nonalcoholic
> > beverages in Latin America. They now have
> subsidiaries in
> > Mexico,
> > Venezuela, Ecuador, four Central American
> countries and
> > Thailand. By 2005,
> > they had more than 8 million customers and
> employed 8,000
> > workers. Their
> > sales totaled US$1 billion.
> >
> > The Ananos family overcame years of socialist and
> populist
> > experiments that
> > hurt Peru's economy. They demonstrate what can
> be done
> > when obstacles are
> > overcome by the power of optimism.
> >
> > Aquilino Flores is another Peruvian who started
> out washing
> > cars 40 years
> > ago. He had no capital. Today, Flores is the most
> important
> > textile
> > businessman in Peru, heading a company called Topy
> Top with
> > annual sales of
> > more than US$100 million. As Daniel Cordova writes
> in his
> > contribution to
> > the book, "...the story of the Flores family
> and Topy
> > Top is one of
> > tenacity, determination and intuition."
> Didn't we
> > used to teach such things
> > in American schools before class warfare, envy and
> > penalizing the
> > successful?
> >
> > The story behind Nakumatt, Kenya's largest
> supermarket
> > chain, could have
> > been written in America. Google Nakumatt for
> details.
> >
> > In Nigeria, a clothing design industry has been
> created to
> > produce and sell
> > adire attire, traditional in the Yoruba culture.
> There are
> > thousands of
> > adire workers, most of them women with little or
> no
> > education, but they
> > have "an entrepreneurial drive to make a
> living and
> > create wealth where
> > there was previously only misery," writes
> Thompson
> > Ayodele in his essay.
> > "These entrepreneurs receive no government
> aid. In
> > fact, through action or
> > omission, the government has placed and continues
> to place
> > many obstacles
> > in their way. Yet they have been able to combat
> poverty
> > much more
> > effectively than foreign aid and official
> poverty-reduction
> > programs."
> >
> > Please re-read that last sentence. Government aid
> impedes
> > success and
> > creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create
> success and
> > independence. In
> > countries with far less capital and opportunity
> than
> > America, people
> > haven't sung songs about overcoming. They have
> overcome
> > through tenacity,
> > risk-taking and self-reliance.
> >
> > During the presidential campaign, each time Barack
> Obama
> > focuses on misery
> > and the need for more government spending, John
> McCain
> > should trot-out
> > American stories of the formerly poor and let them
> tell how
> > they made it so
> > that others can too.
> >
> > Llosa says Spain is "particularly interesting
> and
> > instructive for those who
> > think that certain nations are doomed forever by
> virtue of
> > their culture.
> > In the past two decades, Spain, whose culture was
> once
> > inimical to notions
> > such as self-reliance and individual initiative,
> has
> > experienced an
> > economic and social transformation."
> >
> > If Spain and the poor in Peru and Africa can do
> it,
> > what's stopping America
> > and poor Americans?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thompson Ayodele
> > Director
> > Initiative for Public Policy Analysis
> > P.O.Box 6434
> > Shomolu,Lagos
> > Nigeria
> > Email:thompson at ippanigeria.org
> > Backup: thompsondele at onebox.com
> > Website: www.ippanigeria.org
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> >
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> > Cell:080 2302 5079
>
>
>
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