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Bakens Verzet), 1018 AM
SELF-FINANCING,
ECOLOGICAL, SUSTAINABLE, LOCAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR THE WORLD’S
POOR.
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Edition 179: 25 January, 2012
HOW THE WORLD’S POOR CAN IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF
LIFE AND MEET THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
PRACTICAL MONETARY
REFORM.
(Stichting Bakens Verzet has
endorsed the Earth Charter.)
A MODEL FOR DEVELOPMENT WITH CREATIVE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY
REDUCTION.
The Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated
development projects presented at this website provides simple, down-to-earth
practical solutions to poverty- and
development-related problems. It sets out step by step how the solutions are
put into effect. By following the steps, users can draft their own advanced ecological sustainable local integrated
development projects and apply for their seed financing. Social,
financial, productive and service structures are set up in a critical order of
sequence and carefully integrated with each other. That way, cooperative,
interest-free, inflation-free local economic
environments are formed in project areas. Local initiative and true competition are
then free to flourish there.
The Model itself is a project index. Each item in the index is linked to
a sample file. The Model is in the public domain and can be used by all free of
charge.
Click here for a 32-slide
Powerpoint presentation of a typical
integrated development project.
Click here for a very simple summary of a typical integrated
development project.
Click here to see an executive summary
which provides a short analysis of a typical integrated development project.
Click here to see the
Model itself, a standard project index.
Click here to see a full-year e-learning course at
post-masters level for the Diploma in Integrated Development ( Dip. Int. Dev.) The course is available on-line
for use by all. Anyone interested can follow the full course free of charge.
The Diploma in Integrated Development ( Dip. Int. Dev.) itself is awarded only
to students following the course with tutor support, against payment for
tutorship on a costs-recovery basis. Diploma graduates qualify to lead
integrated development projects and to train others. Just reading the course
material provides full information on the concepts and methods the Model is
based on.
THERE’S A SPECIAL MENU FOR YOU IF YOU ARE:
An international or national development organisation,
donor, or micro-credit institution.
A university, research institute or student.
A development aid professional (the work specially
benefits women! )
An individual who cares and wants to make a difference.
MORE ON SOME BASIC ISSUES COVERED BY THE MODEL FOR INTEGRATED
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
Agriculture and food security in integrated development
projects Credit crises. Solutions offered by integrated development
projects.
Ecology and conservation in integrated development
projects. Education in integrated development projects.
Fight against corruption in integrated development
projects. Financing integrated development projects using the CDM
mechanism.
Gender and women's rights in integrated development
projects. Health aspects and integrated development projects.
Millennium Development Goals. How integrated development
projects solve them. Millennium goals. How integrated development projects
achieve them. Powerpoint presentation : 36 slides.
Policy
implications of integrated development projects. Poverty, its causes, what is needed to eliminate it.
Powerpoint presentation : 24 slides.
Project architecture for integrated development.
Powerpoint presentation : 14 slides. Project structures for integrated development. Powerpoint
presentation : 43 slides.
Water and sanitation in integrated development projects.
MONETARY REFORM: HOW OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS AND HOW TO
CORRECT IT.
The world's debt problem is that too many people have
been getting something for nothing for too long. Unearned income in the
form of interest paid on bank
deposits doesn’t produce anything. The additional debt needed to support
that unearned income must be serviced by the productive economy but can
never be repaid. Both the unearned income and the debt needed to support
it increase exponentially.
Some nations have also been living beyond their means in their dealings
with others, creating current account deficits that accumulate over time.
Those deficits add more to the debt the debtor nations must service and to
the amount of unearned income the productive economy must pay local and
foreign deposit holders. They also lead to foreign ownership of debtor
economies and greater exchange rate instability.
In some countries the total debt is now so large that the unearned income
being paid for doing nothing exceeds the growth of the productive economy.
Income earners cannot pay all the unearned income that deposit holders
expect without reducing their own disposable incomes. Total economic
output then shrinks, causing worldwide economic collapse.
The solutions are to remove deposit interest from the financial system and
to repay the banks' foreign debt.
To remove deposit interest from the money supply, publicly issued interest-free
money will need to replace private interest-bearing bank debt, and the amount
of money in circulation will need to be carefully
managed. Normal banking operations and bank profits will not be affected
by the change because inflation will be kept close to zero and the
financial system will become almost risk-free.
Foreign debt can be repaid by introducing a tax-neutral Foreign Exchange
Surcharge to raise the cost of foreign transactions in debtor countries so
their current accounts become positive.
Removing deposit interest on bank deposits means that local interest rates will
fall to low levels. Local borrowers will not be paying enough interest on
their loans to enable the banks to service their foreign debt. To fix
the shortfall during the transition period, the agency in charge of
the public money supply will manage and fund the banks' foreign
interest costs until their foreign debt has been repaid.
General summary of all papers published. (Revised edition).
NEW : The missing
links between growth, saving, deposits and GDP.
The DNA of the debt-based economy.
The Savings Myth. (Revised edition)
The interest-bearing debt system and its economic impacts.
(Revised edition).
Manifesto of 95 principles of the debt-based economy.
Unified text of the manifesto of the debt-based
economy.
How to create stable financial systems in four
complementary steps. (Revised edition).
How to introduce an e-money financed virtual minimum wage
system in New Zealand. (Revised edition).
How to introduce a guaranteed
minimum income in New Zealand. (Revised edition).
Financial system mechanics explained for the first time. “The Ripple
Starts Here.” (Original
version, not updated. This is now for historical reference only. Other papers
incorporate up-dates and revisions. )
Short summary of the paper The Ripple Starts Here.
(Original version, not updated. This is now for historical reference only.
Other papers incorporate up-dates and revisions.)
Financial system mechanics: Power-point presentation. (Original version, not updated. This is now
for historical reference only. Other papers incorporating up-dates and
revisions.)
See also : Vitali S. et al, The network of global
corporate control. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich,
October, 2011.
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLANS COST A FEW EUROCENTS
PER PERSON.
The Model makes the drafting of fully detailed national or regional integrated development plans
to meet nearly all of the Millennium
goals quick, easy, and cheap. How quickly the plans are prepared depends on the
number of people (usually students or active members of grass-roots NGOs) and
the number of individual projects (about 20 for each million inhabitants)
involved. The maximum period for plan preparation is about three months, the
minimum period one month. Plans involving populations over 10.000.000 cost
about 2.5 eurocents ( € 0.025) per
person. Smaller plans involving up to 1.000.000 inhabitants may cost up to 15
eurocents ( € 0.15) per person, depending on population
spread and the size of the project
areas.
National and regional plans involve the
drafting of individual project documentations under the Model for each area
with about 50.000 inhabitants in the country or region. Their preparation has
practical advantages. Authors of the individual project documentations receive
direct personal hands-on training on the application of the principles behind
the Model, so that they qualify to act as coordinators for the projects they
have drafted. Another advantage is that the financiers of the plans, the costs
of which vary from about € 100.000 to
€ 300.000 depending on the
populations, get to know the local grass-roots NGOs involved. Successful
preparation of the national or regional plan should make it easier for the same
financiers to contribute to the cost of pilot projects in the poorest areas
covered by the plan.
CONVERSION OF TRADITIONAL PROJECT STRUCTURES INTO FULLY
SUSTAINABLE ONES.
Many existing development projects have already
failed or risk failure because they are not fully sustainable over a longer
term. This is often due to the lack of an appropriate framework of enabling
social, financial, and productive structures fully covering on-going management
and maintenance costs and long-term replacements of capital goods.
The social, financial, productive and service
structures foreseen in section 5 of the Model
can be built around structures set up under traditional projects to create
cooperative, interest-free, inflation-free local economic environments in the project
areas. This way several thousand work opportunities
can be created in each project area and large amounts of on-going formal money
costs saved. On-going financial leakage
from project areas, typical of traditional development projects, is blocked.
The small amount of formal money reaching the project areas is retained and continually recycled there.
WEBSITE DESIGN.
This website has been designed especially to
help professionals working under difficult conditions in developing countries.
Communications there are often expensive, and telephone lines and computer
equipment for internet connections slow. Web-pages with pop-ups and
audio-visual or moving images consume extra, costly, energy. Website texts are
therefore presented here in HTM language on a plain background. First-line
files are always simple text files, to speed up navigation within the website.
Photographs, drawings, illustrations, charts and graphs can be viewed "on
demand".
Search engines rank this website as a leading resource on a wide range
of development-related issues.
View rankings here using your preferred search engine.
"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,
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
William Jennings Bryan, Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention Held in Chicago, Illinois, July 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, 1896, (Logansport, Indiana, 1896), pp.226–234.
“Where is the
thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. The end of living and the beginning of
survival.”
Speech (as later reported)
attributed to Si’ahl, ‘Chief Seattle’, Seattle, 1854.
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