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01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev.)
Edition
01:14 November, 2009.
Edition
02 : 01 October, 2012.
SECTION B :
SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS.
Value: 06
points out of 18 .
Expected work
load: 186 hours out of 504.
The points
are finally awarded only on passing the consolidated exam for Section B : Solutions to the Problems.
Fourth
block: The structures to be created.
Value : 03 points out of 18
Expected work load: 96 hours
out of 504
The points
are finally awarded only on passing the consolidated exam for Section B : Solutions to the Problems.
Fourth block:
The structures to be created.
Section 3: Financial
structures.[24 hours]
20.00 hours :Financial structures.
04.00 hours : Preparation report.
Section 3: Financial
structures.[24 hours]
20.00 hours :Financial structures
: analysis.
1. The basic concepts -
introduction. [ 2.5 hours]
2. The basic concepts – more
details. [ 2.5 hours]
3. The local money systems -
introduction [ 2.5 hours]
4. The local money systems –
more details. [ 2.5 hours]
5. The interest-free
micro-credit systems -
introduction.[2.5 hours]
6. The interest-free
micro-credit systems -
more details.[2.5 hours]
7. The cooperative purchasing groups -
introduction. [2.5 hours]
8. The cooperative purchasing
groups – more details. [2.5 hours]
04.00 hours : Preparation report.
Section 3: Financial
structures.[24 hours]
20.00 hours :Financial structures
: analysis.
1. The basic concepts -
introduction. [ At least 2.5 hours]
The goal of integrated development projects under the Model is to create a cooperative interest-free,
inflation-free, local economic
environment where individual initiative and true competition are free to
flourish.
Doing this means :
1. Introducing local money systems.
2. Introducing interest-free micro-credit systems without
formal money costs.
3. Creation of cooperative purchasing groups without
formal money costs.
At the beginning of the course in section 01 .Definition of poverty you came across
concepts such as:
“Poverty is created scarcity”,
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the
Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th annual NGO Conference,
United Nations, New York 7th September 2005.
and, on how money works :
Money
is not the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them.
"Gesell, Silvio, The Natural Economic Order,
revised English edition, Peter Owen,
In section 1 of block 1 analysis of the causes of poverty 02. Some factors linked with poverty
the issue of the «value » of money was raised. In sections 03.
Debts and subsidies- analysis and 03.
Debts and subsidies – in depth analysis
Page 07 : Average hourly wage
Page 08 : Balance
Page 13 : Cheque form
Money represents a right to transfer goods and services.
Read annexe Plugging the leaks : Handbook on local economies, New Economics
Foundation, London, 2002.
Page 17 reads :
«Imagine your economy as a bucket. The money that
comes into your area will flow straight out again if there are many holes in
the bucket. A full bucket means that local people have enough money to be able
to buy what they need for a good quality of life. But if your bucket is leaky
then to fill the bucket you will need to pour the money in at a faster rate
than it is pouring out. So there are two strategies to fill a bucket – you can
pour in the money faster, or you can slow down its leakage by plugging some of
the leaks.»
1. Opinion.
span style='color:#FF6600;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>On one
page compare the leakage of water through the holes in the bucket with
financial leakage as studied in section
1 of block 1 analysis of the
causes of poverty.
Page 18 reads:
«Suppose you paint a pound coin red and watch where it
goes. Every time it changes hands within a community, it means income for a
local person. The more times it changes hands, the better for that community.
In fact, money that is re-spent in a local area is the same as attracting new
money into that area. Either way, it is new money into the hands of the person
who receives it. »
2. Opinion.
Give a one-page explanation of the concept : «money that is
re-spent in a local area is the same as attracting new money into that
area »
Read Development and sustianability, Capra Fritjof, Center for Ecoliteracy, Berkely, 2005.
(1) Development is a Northern concept. The league
table—"developed/developing/underdeveloped"—is arranged according to
Northern criteria. Those countries that are "developed" are those
that have adopted the Northern industrial way of life. It is a profoundly
mono-cultural concept. To be a developing country means to be succeeding in the
aspiration of becoming more like the North.
(2) Development means economic development. No other social aspirations
or cultural values are allowed to get in the way. If they can coexist with that
development, okay; if they can't coexist with it, they are overridden.
(3) Economic development is a
top-down process. Decisions and control rest firmly in the hands of experts,
managers of international capital, bureaucrats of state governments, the World
Bank, the IMF, etc.
The concept of development
comes from rich countries. For them «development » means «economic
development”. That «economic development » is controlled from top to bottom by interests
based in industrialised countries.
3. Opinion.
On two pages, first write a
short introduction, then your opinion on
each of the three points raised by Capra, and your conclusion.
On the other hand, according
to Capra (p. 4), the vision of global civil society it that:
“....the development process
is not purely an economic process. It is also a social, ecological, and ethical
process—a multidimensional and systemic process. The primary actors in
development are the institutions of civil society—NGOs and other associations
based on kin, on neighbourhood, or on common interests.”
According to Simonson M., Étude d’un système
d’échange de services sans argent, (Study
of a money-free system of exchange) Sociology Thesis, Université
Catholoque de Louvain, undated) (Resource available
in French only)
«In anthropology, it was Marcel Mauss
19 (1872-1950) [M. Mauss, Écrits politiques, textes réunis par M. Fournier, Paris, Fayard,
1997 ; M. Muss, Essai sur le don,
Paris, PUF, 1996] who was the first to express the
idea of money as a holistic principle, or rather as a total social fact which
crosses and mixes all social functions. As something expiring faith and
confidence, from which it derives its value, it has not only a financial meaning, but a political, moral, social, and
psychological one as well» . (Translation T.E.Manning).
4.Opinion.
Mauss’s vision
of money as a holistic principle is not
comparable with that of development expressed by Capra. On one page explain why.
◄ Fourth block : Section 3 : The financial structures.
◄ Fourth block : The structures to be created.
◄ Main index for the Diploma in Integrated Development
(Dip. Int. Dev.)
"Money
is not the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars
them."
Gesell,
Silvio, The Natural Economic Order, revised English
edition, Peter Owen, London 1958, page 228.
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara,
point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th annual
NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7th September 2005.
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