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                                                                                    01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int.Dev.)

 

Edition 01: 04 December, 2009

 

 

Tekstvak:         Quarter 3.

 

 

 

 

Tekstvak: SECTION C : THE MODEL.

 

 

 

 

Study points : 05 points out of 18

Minimum study time : 125 hours out of 504

 

The study points are awarded upon passing the consolidated exam  for  Section C : The Model.

 


 

Seventh block:  Regional and national plans.

 

Study points : 01 point out of 18

Minimum study time: 24 hours out of  504

 

The study points are awarded upon passing the consolidated exam  for  Section C : The Model.

 


 

Seventh block:  Regional and national plans.

 

Section 2: Inter-project relations.

Minimum study time : 5 hours out of 504

 

02.00 hours : Inter-project relations at regional level.

02.00 hours : Inter-project relations at national level.

01.00 hour   : Report.

 


 

Section 2: Inter-project relations.

 

Inter-project relations at national level. (At least 2 hours).

 

Warning :  The national structures in this section are the very last to be set up, once more than one regional system is already in operation. Regional systems are set up once there are more than one local projects in operation in the region concerned  The volume of transactions between regions should, furthermore, not exceed  0,25% du 100%.  The national structures are, therefore, relatively marginal within the general framework of integrated development systems. This is exactly the opposite to what might be expected with the application of conventional economics.

 

In section 1: Extensions to Regional and National plans of this seventh block: Regional and national plans an analysis was made of the formation of series of local economy systems at the regional and national levels.

 

The  relationship between other project at regional level  was considered.

 

Refer also to the  diagram of a national plan in the  three-level anthropological analysis  in the third block of the course on the solutions to the problems.

What is the relationship between regional systems in the framework of a national system ?

The people in charge of each individual local money system name a representative to the regional local money commission. The representative can be one of those in charge or another person considered competent for the job. This means that a sort of  regional «parliament » of local money systems is set up.

 

Since different regions have different populations some of these regional «parliaments » will have more members than others. For example a region with 5 million inhabitants would have a local money system  «parliament »  of about 100 members. The local money system «parliament »  of a region with  just  300.000 inhabitants will have only 6 members .

 

The members of each of the regional local money parliaments will decide how their organisations will operate. Regions with just a few members may choose in favour of direct representation. Larger regional  local money «parliaments » might prefer to choose a management group.

 

The regional local money commissions manage the local money import-export operations amongst the  regions. They act as antennas for the expression of the requirements of the local money systems in the regions they represent.

 

Requests for goods and services which cannot be met in a given region are handled by the regional level representatives or  regional local money parliament.

 

For example, inhabitants needing local money goods and services which are not available within their region can follow two paths :

 

a)  In cooperation with those in charge of adjacent regions (provinces, districts), find out whether  the goods and services in question are available there. 

 

b) In cooperation with those in charge other regions (provinces, districts), find out whether  the goods and services in question are available there. 

 

Individual transactions are never authorised. Operations always involve classes or categories of goods and services.

 

Those in charge of each region always take their current local money currency balances with those of other regions into consideration. It is their job to make sure the balances always tend to zero. Where necessary they must take prompt action to make sure a proper (near-zero) balance is maintained.

 

Preference is always given to trading with adjacent regions. Where is is impossible to maintain a mutually balanced result with the nearest (adjacent) regions, contact can be made with other regions.

 

Systematic local-money system export-import operations amongst regional systems.

 

The main goal of regional economies applying integrated development concepts is self-sufficiency. This means that active attempts are made to produce goods at regional level for consumption within the region. The regional dimension should be able to satisfy most requirements for a good quality of life for all.

 

Each region tries to limit is importations and exportations. This is easier than might be expected, because, where integrated development concepts are being applied, transactions and relations tend towards a zero balance, eliminating financial leakage from one are to another.  Individual project areas are not out to profit from others, and  regions are not trying to profit from each other. 

 

Commercial relations amongst regions should always be in balance. Since one regional system cannot exploit another commercially, competition characteristic of  modern globalisation is eliminated.

 

Where production of a good or service commences within a region which was previously imported from another region, those responsible at regional level   will cancel the import-export agreement for the category of goods and services in question. Risk of overproduction always lies with the producing region.  The other side of the medal is there is in principle always the freedom to exploit, in the common interest, resources, specialisation, and the particular  experiences of each region.

 

Competition.

 

The rules on competition in the part on extensions to national level plans  of this block 7 are reflected at regional level as well..

 

Where there is specialisation of activities the supplier of a product or service may be in a monopolist position. This might occur at individual project level, or in an adjacent systems area, or even at regional level. The people who are duly elected to manage the local money systems at regional level will in that case support the formation of competing suppliers in their region.  In any case consumers are always free to buy competing goods and services using the formal money system. This possibility puts a brake on monopolist tendencies in local money systems at regional level.

 

Transactions.

 

Transactions are always carried out in the local money of the seller of the good or service.

 

Where the parties to a transaction a members of two different regions, the seller must make sure his product or service is amongst the categories authorised by the respective regional systems. If this is not so, the seller cannot be paid within the local money system framework, since the «payment » will not be recognised by the management services. In cases of doubt, the transaction can always be carried out under the formal money system.

 

Local money operations at regional (provincial, district) level usually involve highly specialised goods and services. Their volume would not be expected to be greater than  0,25% of 100% of local money transactions in a given country.

 

Click here for an illustration of  the expected volume of transactions at the different levels.

 

1. Research.

 

No provision is made for international local money transactions. Explain on one page why..

 

2. Research.

 

Local money systems are by their nature cooperative. Products and services are generally interest-free and free from commercial exploitation. At the same time,  transactions between regions may not always be 100%  free from formal money content, and therefore wholly interest- free. Give a one page explanation of the reasons for this.

 

3. Opinion.

 

Taking the content of this course into account, give a one page outline of a powerful regional economy.

 

4. Research.

 

As soon as all of the regions of a country have completed their patchwork quilt of individual integrated development projects, the country will have achieved (and surpassed) practically all of the Millennium Development Goals. Give a one-page explanation of this concept.

 

5. Opinion.

 

On one page, comment on what you think are the main obstacles to achieving a national coverage of integrated development projects.

 



 Seventh block :  Section 2: Inter-project relations. 

 Seventh block :  Regional and national plans.


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"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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