Some of the intractable problems sometimes dont require resources to be solved. They are misallocation of resources masquerading as shortage of resources. They require wise, intelligent and practical people to be on your side. Throwing resources at problems when these are not yet available sufficiently is like carrying water in a bucket with a hole.
India has the capability to develop a new model of helping poorer countries. Most of the developmental finance institutors don't understand mixed economies such as India where modern, traditional, everything coexists. They also cannot solve endemic problems that connect poverty and corrupt politics because they are intertwined problems and solving political problems is out of syllabus for them !
India has found unique solutions to its problems using its common sense and these can be offered to these countries to progressive leaders. Our solutions such as Aadhaar, EESL - LED , Direct Benefit ransfer Schemes, Soil health programme, NSDL for tax administration. GST roll out, demonetization, Electricity reform, water management, AMUL and Operation Flood and many others. In the next few years as we reform schooling we can add more domains to this stack which can collectively be called the Good Governance Stack (GGS or maybe better called the "Vikastack"). Unlike developmental institutions we would have working models with technology and partners who can go and implement and solve them.
India should also set up OPEC like organisation to extract fair price for agricultural produce which has been suppressed by West. Ex for teas with Sri Lanka and Kenya. Spices Board should lead efforts to develop better prices by working with Sri Lanka and African countries.
India masquerades as a country but in reality is a continent. It is the project which Europe tried and failed but India has succeeded. So the GGS/Vikastack which is being tested across various types of regions - hilly, river deltas, desert/arid, populated metros provides significant advantage over theoretical models of Western educated technocrats. In this the cunningness of our some of our citizens and their fetish to break and bend rules comes as a great advantage as it makes our systems far more robust than systems coming from countries where citizens tend to obey the law without much thought.
India should offer this as help to poor African countries and countries such as Afghanistan to rapidly pull them out of their endemic problems. Since corruption and bad politics are intertwined we should identify new age politicians who want to change the destiny of their nations using their own resources. Swami Vivekanand said that all poverty is spiritual and in a way we will cure them of their spiritual poverty and will help them develop their country using the resources saved from waste or plunder. This way we will develop a deep civilisational friendship instead of them developing resentment arising from pushing them into economic slavery like China is doing to Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
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I urge you to read this example in Corporate charity which highlights the above concept.
When Toyota offered Kaizen as help
I urge you to read this example in Corporate charity which highlights the above concept.
When Toyota offered Kaizen as help
The Food Bank for New York City is the country’s largest anti-hunger charity, feeding about 1.5 million people every year. It leans heavily, as other charities do, on the generosity of businesses, including Target, Bank of America, Delta Air Lines and the New York Yankees. Toyota was also a donor. But then Toyota had a different idea.
Instead of a check, it offered kaizen.
A Japanese word meaning “continuous improvement,” kaizen is a main ingredient in Toyota’s business model and a key to its success, the company says. It is an effort to optimize flow and quality by constantly searching for ways to streamline and enhance performance. Put more simply, it is about thinking outside the box and making small changes to generate big results.
Toyota’s emphasis on efficiency proved transformative for the Food Bank.
The Food Bank for New York City is the country’s largest anti-hunger charity, feeding about 1.5 million people every year. It leans heavily, as other charities do, on the generosity of businesses, including Target, Bank of America, Delta Air Lines and the New York Yankees. Toyota was also a donor. But then Toyota had a different idea.
Instead of a check, it offered kaizen.
A Japanese word meaning “continuous improvement,” kaizen is a main ingredient in Toyota’s business model and a key to its success, the company says. It is an effort to optimize flow and quality by constantly searching for ways to streamline and enhance performance. Put more simply, it is about thinking outside the box and making small changes to generate big results.
Toyota’s emphasis on efficiency proved transformative for the Food Bank.
