Saturday, June 22, 2013

The Answer Is Trade Not Aid

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

OK! There you have it again fellows!

The man is taking a down-board view. Here again SWOT analysis is on display: the external view is again informing anticipatory local action.

Rosabeth Moss-Kanther from Harvard says it well: "Think global but act local".

Are the laggabots in government, in politics and in local industry taking note? I hope so.

A word to the wise.

Anonymous said...

The Chinese have no Soul. Thy pt ey have no manners when they travel abroad, just recently they defaced an Egyptian artefact, they are extremely arrogant...and racist too.

Anonymous said...

"Rosabeth Moss-Kanther" from Harvard

This should have been Rosabeth Moss KANTER, with no "h" in the last name.

Anonymous said...

There is a very significant statement being made here by Mr. Chastanet. First, if we look at the aid that tends to be given from abroad, we will notice that it tends not to be coordinated with other inputs from other countries.

This suggests that we, as Saint Lucians development a long-term plan of physical and institutional development (eg education and other infrastructural development) that will trace a path or trajectory onto sustained human capital development and sustainable growth.

To benefit from trade in the way assumed by Mr. Chastanet we MUST MOST AGGRESSIVELY, move towards developing our human capital as a moral imperative.

To date, this country has not seen the requisite leadership, nor the leadership skills in place.

We most definitely, are not there -- yet.

Anonymous said...

Any genuine leader, who honestly accepts the role of reversing the fortunes of a people who have been mentally and politically conditioned tribal-wise to a "fixed economic pie" approach, will have to forge a dynamic development programme based on realism, and not the usual fare of political claptrap and empty rhetoric.