What Now?

Towards Another Development

Dag Hammarskjld Foundation

Established in 1962 in Sweden Aims to identify new concepts and policies to new issues on developemt and democracy

Problems Brought by Devt

mass poverty environmental damage social inequality unequal power play among nations

Preceding Proposals

Slow down economic growth Accelerate technology and planning Let the poor sink (lifeboat)
Such views are tainted with vested interests, and they are politically impractical.

The Report

Calls for another development geared to the satisfaction of needs Treats man's needs as social needs

Pillars
1.Satisfaction of needs, eradication of poverty 2.Endogenous and Self-reliant devt 3.Harmony with the environment 4.Change in Structures 5.Immediate action

1. Satisfaction of Needs

Needs are tremendous and increasing, and MUST be satisfied It's not the scarcity of resources that causes poverty, but rather how it is produced and distributed Processes, policies and educational systems geared to satisfy the affluent and not the masses

2. Endogenous & SelfReliant Development

Third-world countries adviced to bridge the gap with other countries even if current models are a fail Alternative roads to devt is needed Besides basic needs, cultural life must be promoted, protected and developed Development focused on man, aimed at his liberation and fulfillment

2. Endogenous & SelfReliant Development

Stimulation of creativity, better utilization of production factors Reduction of vulnerability and dependence Countries may opt to withdraw temporarily from the international system to strenghten itself Exchange of experience, not just one global approach

3. Harmony with the Environment

Clarification of the earth's 'limits', what can it only provide for us What will happen in the future depends on the policies to be defined and applied It's not the poor who is a danger on the 'limits', but the few who monopolizes it.

3. Harmony with the Environment

Population is a serious problem, but it should not be solely blamed The environment is destroyed due to illadvised techniques and monopolization of land and resources Preservation of the environment is inseparable to the satisfaction of needs.

4. Structural Transformations

Former strategies are a fail because it did not focused on the development of man Current system is dominated by marketeconomy industrial countries controlling the Third World Unequal economic relations Reform on socio-economic and political structures needed

4. Structural Transformations

Reform on the ownership and control on production to prevent a minority accumulate all the wealth Democratization of power, decentalization Social mechanisms to protect the weakest communities and individuals Bureaucracies under social control

5. Immediate Action

Wide use of traditional economic indicators is misleading Establishment of a poverty line Growth focused not just on how many was produced, but how they are produced Indicators that consider factors connected with living standards

5. Immediate Action

Define basic needs according to desired social values Establishment of social indicators that measure satisfaction of needs by social groups Identify groups that need immediate priority and action Examine distribution of available resources

Criticisms

Too focused on building a new world order and the problem of development Other issues such as war and gender equality untouched Role of business and civil society not emphasized Globalization was unheard of as if it doesn't exist

Impact

Served as a challenge to traditional notions of development Part of its critique has been accepted into mainstream thinking Non-GNP measures of development developed and now used in policymaking