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01. E-course :
Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int.Dev.)
Edition
01: 04 December, 2009
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.
◄ 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,
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th
annual NGO Conference, United Nations,
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