https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/public/ recent bookmarks from jerryking 2026-05-20T22:56:06+00:00 https://archive.is/20260520100506/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-doug-ford-billy-bishop-airport-expansion/#selection-2589.0-2599.23 jerryking>Dubai<< and >>Singapore<<, all anchored by airports that connect them to other leading cities across the world. Many of the world’s great cities operate more than one major airport. New York has John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark. London has Heathrow, Gatwick and London City. A substantial body of research shows that multiple airports strengthen a city’s economy by providing greater geographic access, serving different types of travellers, expanding overall connectivity, and easing capacity pressure. Billy Bishop is often called Toronto’s downtown airport, and that location matters more today than ever. Toronto’s downtown has yet to fully recover from the pandemic shutdowns. What powers downtowns now is not workers but visitors. Across North America’s largest downtowns, visitors now make up about 60 per cent of activity, workers 30 per cent, and residents 10 per cent. Billy Bishop brings tourists and business travellers directly into Toronto’s downtown core – an advantage few if any other cities can match. The world’s leading companies are building new headquarters directly atop their cities’ major rail and transit hubs to make commutes more seamless for their workers. In New York, JPMorgan Chase’s new headquarters and the signature One Vanderbilt tower rise above Grand Central Terminal, while BlackRock and Pfizer have built their new headquarters at Hudson Yards, atop a new transit hub. In London, Google and Meta anchor King’s Cross, the city’s largest rail station. There may be much to criticize about how Premier Doug Ford is carrying out his expansion plan. He’d moved unilaterally, sidelining the city of Toronto, and his government could not answer simple questions on the technical details. But the underlying idea is not just sound but transformational. The debate over Billy Bishop Airport has too often been framed as a choice between a busy airport and a quiet park. But great waterfronts, like great downtowns and great cities, are not one thing or another. They are bustling mixes of activity – the messy urbanism that is part of Toronto’s DNA. A downtown airport is an irreplaceable element of that mix. Nothing embodies Toronto’s urban identity more than a working airport on its waterfront – quiet planes overhead, just steps above cruise ships, industrial facilities, film studios, neighbourhoods, towers and sports stadiums that energize the city. It can also be a signal of Toronto’s renewed global ambition – a sustainable airport, woven into an urban neighbourhood, connecting its downtown to other great cities of our time.]]> airports Billy_Bishop_Airport Doug_Ford expansions quality_of_life Toronto urban urbanization urban_intensification urban_planning waterfronts hubs Richard_Florida downtown_core air_travel economic_development deal_flow idea_flows talent_flows Dubai London New_York_City Singapore superstars https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:437c27ef5090/ 2025-12-31T14:56:09+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/in/zemedeneh-negatu-833390296/ jerryking Ethiopians LinkedIn private_equity Africa economic_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:47ab32978788/ 2021-12-28T05:21:34+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/us/franklin-a-thomas-dead.html jerryking African-Americans boards_&_directors_&_governance Brooklyn Colleges_&_Universities Columbia community_development cost-cutting economic_development economic_empowerment endowments Ford_Foundation humility lawyers leaders neighbourhoods philanthropy nonprofit trailblazing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:eeb638c4f073/ 2021-11-22T12:27:13+00:00 https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/11/22/opinion/letters/the-303-committee-report-shows-both-burnham-and-jagan-were-deeply-flawed/ jerryking cat's_paw Cheddi_Jagan Chile cluelessness Cold_War economic_development economic_stagnation Guyana Guyanese history ineptitude leaders leadership_failures letters_to_the_editor Lee_Kuan_Yew LFSB Michael_Maxwell missed_opportunities nationalizations PNC PPP puppets shallowness Singapore small_states socialism South_Korea Taiwan human_frailties U.S._State_Department flawed_people https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4c579adf3757/ 2021-04-15T05:00:07+00:00 https://www.ft.com/content/bb663186-0c36-468d-a9c7-733fc6506c54 jerryking Charles_de_Gaulle civil_servants civil_service Colleges_&_Universities elitism France alumni career_paths conformity diversity economic_development Emmanuel_Macron education ENA French heterogeneity inbreeding managers mandarins policymakers post-WWII public_service talent training transformational unimaginative https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:80858d1ef1e7/ 2020-12-31T22:02:57+00:00 https://www.stabroeknews.com/2020/12/31/opinion/letters/the-way-guyanese-operate-is-not-conducive-to-accelerated-development-that-is-about-to-mushroom/ jerryking>post slavery<< societies......That said, the way Guyanese operate today is not conducive to the accelerated development that is about to mushroom before our very eyes in real time. Despite higher levels of criminal violence in both Jamaica and Trinidad, the people of both of those nations are more courteous.....They've cultivated habits of courtesy that make daily interactions smoother – like saying “please” without a bullying overtone and “thank you” without an overtone of grudge. Is this because of the impact of tourism? Loud as both Jamaicans and Trinidadians are, you would not see their drivers driving fast in the lane designated for oncoming traffic to try **squeeze in front of the line** [i.e. = "queue-jumping"] waiting at traffic lights on red! Guyanese are generally indifferent to queues. Guyanese, including government departments, generally see no point in replying to written communications or to fulfilling clear promises to return a phone call or provide an update.......There was a time when Guyanese were required to stand for the playing of the National Anthem in cinemas and at public events generally.......That was in a time when it was hoped that Guyana could do like China, Cuba or Singapore – but the peoples of those countries are culturally disciplined [i.e. = "tight cultures"] .....There came a time also when Guyanese saw good reason to emigrate in droves – a brain drain that continues to this day – and so went our **plumbers, masons** [i.e. = "building trades"/"skilled trades"], and UG and GTI graduates to other countries. With nobody to pass on **trade skills** to apprentices, Guyana had to make do [i.e. = "muddle through"] with contractors who were merely enterprising chancers who never had inculcated in them any tenets of professional discipline. These guys have no governing bodies to account to (JCK: = accreditation) – our attorneys are not accountable to any disciplinary body either – so routinely do substandard work without regard to building regulations or any other material considerations such as accurately estimating required materials and building to agreed completion deadlines........In a country soon to be awash with oil money and where one can already do just about anything so long as one can pay to do it, we are but a short step away from becoming much worse than both Jamaica and Trinidad where criminal violence is concerned........It should become a priority of our education system to teach our schoolchildren the practical benefits of being courteous. That might lead future generations to be better disposed to acquiring a disciplined outlook that will have a positive >>knock-on effect<< on indigenous Guyanese participation in the infrastructural and progressive development of our country. As things now stand, Guyana will have to rely very heavily on skilled and disciplined foreign workers and the growing cohort of naturalized Guyanese who already possess those attributes.........Those who already know better should make the effort to be courteous to others – even **without expecting the same courtesy in return**. The discipline required for such a progressive outlook would be good preparation for us all. ]]> accreditation brain_drain courtesies criminality economic_development Guyana Guyanese indiscipline Jamaica lawlessness letters_to_the_editor mindsets post-slavery quality queue-jumping shortcomings standards substandard Trinidad_&_Tobago UG civility root_cause self-discipline orderly_lives social_order belligerence orderliness loose_cultures muddling_through tight_cultures quality_consistency joy_of_giving building_trades skilled_trades knock-on_effects https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b3221517414a/ 2020-11-09T19:55:35+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/opinion/crenshaw-la-black-redevelopment.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage jerryking>self-determination<< and >>self-preservation<< in which the community has a real say and a stake — not merely an advisory role — in what gets built, and for whom. The ideal is major economic development that is also Black empowerment, two things that have been at odds in the real world for a long time. Mr. Goodmon says he is betting that the momentum around anti-racism — and more important, around pro-blackness — will help Downtown Crenshaw Rising prevail, and to establish in Crenshaw a new normal of agency and prosperity. That’s exactly what Black people here have wanted for the last 30 years. We just didn’t know what it looked like. ]]> anti-racism blackness black_pride commercial_real_estate community-minded community_builders community_development community_opposition economic_clout economic_development gentrification George_Floyd Los_Angeles neighbourhoods nonprofit property_development protests redevelopments retailers revitalization Rodney_King self-determination self-preservation shopping_malls community_organizing economic_empowerment self-sustaining https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:59c720b2c96c/ 2020-09-20T02:50:23+00:00 https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-trouble-with-opportunity-zone-investments-01600451555 jerryking assets books capital_flows cities coastal_elites community economic_development economically_disadvantaged economies_of_scale high_net_worth howto industrial_policies industrial_midwest industrial_zones institutions investors low-income match-making midwest municipalities networks network_density norms P&G PPP place-based private_equity property_development prospectuses Red_States rescue_investing rust_belt tax_codes venture_capital production-&-packaging https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9eee1c971b3b/ 2020-08-21T01:52:45+00:00 https://www.ft.com/content/3e1bcd36-d2a7-4429-af55-859e2ddf0366 jerryking>economies of scale<< or specialization. **Small is not beautiful, it is >>unproductive<<**. Africa needs more companies capable of organising a workforce into specialised, collaborative teams, disciplined by competition. Yet even the firms that Africa has are bleeding from the economic impact of coronavirus. Firms in Africa has are bleeding from the >>economic impact<< of **coronavirus.** This shock is not predominantly a result of Africa’s health crisis. The causes are the sharp downturns in advanced economies. Commodity prices have dropped and Africa is a major net exporter. Ghana and Senegal are losing oil revenues that would have financed infrastructure. The slump in global tourism is a heavy blow for Rwanda, whose economic development strategy focused on tourism and conferences. By 2019 it had become the second most-visited country in Africa for these purposes. Now this business has collapsed. Senegal and Ethiopia are major recipients of remittances from citizens working abroad. Normally, these rise during a domestic crisis, but in this global emergency Africa’s diaspora are losing their jobs. This also hits the most desperate places such as Yemen. Finally, the retreat of international capital to safety is hitting hardest the countries that were most promising for investors. Ghana was attracting US pension fund money and major companies such as Volkswagen and Bosch. All four shocks are eroding Africa’s scarce organisational capital and are likely to persist for the medium term. Why is this the West's problem and not just Africa’s? Because Africa’s shocks are forms of transfer. The fall in commodity prices, which has reduced incomes in Africa, has softened the impact of Covid-19 on the commodity-importing economies of the EU and China. Similarly, the collapse of tourism is a transfer of demand. The people no longer buying Africa’s tourist services are spending their money closer to home. The capital no longer flowing into Africa is a transfer of finance. It is now available for domestic spending in OECD countries and China. These effects are inadvertent, but they are damaging and indefensible. They urgently need to be offset. ]]> commodities economic_development economic_downturn Ghana Senegal sub-Saharan_Africa unproductive Africa agriculture capital_flows COVID-19 economies_of_scale Ethiopia informal_economy organizational_capital pandemics remittances Rwanda smallholders tourism small-scale Diaspora economic_impact https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:36691fc406da/ 2020-07-31T14:33:36+00:00 https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2020/07/29/the-last-plantation/ jerryking>pre-independence era<<.... identified, named and explored the pathology for what it was – >>the plantation system<<. As he once observed: “The legacy of institutions, structures and behaviour patterns of the plantation system are so deeply entrenched that adjustment tends to take place as an adaptation within the bounds of the established framework.”..........few people know that Best was an economic advisor to the Cheddi Jagan administration in the 1950s, and that his New World Group had its genesis right here in what was still then >>British Guiana<<. The obdurate nature of the plantation economy is what we continue to be burdened with to this day.....As St. Lucian poet, Derek Walcott, in his own seminal plantation poem, ‘Ruins of a Great House’, observed, “The rot remains with us, the men are gone.”....The economic contours of the oil economy are virtually the same as the plantation economy......Norman Girvan, the late, great Jamaican economist, in his study of the bauxite industry fifty years ago, outlined those contours: foreign ownership; basic or primary stage of production; limited domestic inputs, or local content; the repatriation of profits, meaning most of the money leaving; and “the persistence of the incalculability of value flows with transfer pricing (JKC: the opaqueness of Guyana govt.'s Production-Sharing Agreement with ExxonMobil)”,....Guyana society today... in terms of its fundamental economic framework... is a plantation society redux........Fifty-four years after independence, the “commanding heights of our economy” (a phrase dear to Forbes Burnham) still remains under the command and control of >>external forces<< with the full complicity of our political ‘leadership’: the colonial overseers in their plantation great houses have simply been replaced by homegrown government ministers in their mansions, selling out our >>patrimony<< for a few pittance.....we remain transfixed in the plantation mindset and....mode of action.  ]]> '50s bauxite Cheddi_Jagan editorials exploitation ExxonMobil Guyana Guyanese history institutions local_content mindsets mining multinationals natural_resources oil_industry opacity patterns plantations power_relations power_structures resource_extraction sellout_culture transfer_pricing economic_development economic_stagnation small-mindedness Dutch_West_India_Company pre-Independence patrimony external_forces British_Guiana behavior_patterns https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7dd79cb00840/ 2020-07-29T13:04:49+00:00 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/property-report/article-virtual-and-physical-community-living-room-of-a-library-a-much/ jerryking economic_development libraries https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9dc90f778f6d/ 2019-09-08T16:41:05+00:00 https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2019/09/07/did-burnham-err-in-nationalising-sugar-and-rice-2/ jerryking Guyana Guyanese history LFSB PNC economic_development economic_stagnation ineptitude oil_industry nationalizations multinationals overestimation managerial_capacity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5099f733f072/ 2019-04-20T03:42:14+00:00 https://www.ft.com/content/f77bbe14-6127-11e9-9300-0becfc937c37 jerryking alumni career_paths civil_service conformity diversity economic_development Emmanuel_Macron education elitism ENA France French heterogeneity inbreeding managers mandarins policymakers post-WWII public_service talent training transformational unimaginative Colleges_&_Universities https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:45e1a8dbe108/ 2019-04-16T02:50:36+00:00 https://www.ft.com/content/24246bbe-5f57-11e9-9300-0becfc937c37 jerryking books capital_flows cities coastal_elites community economic_development economically_disadvantaged howto industrial_policies industrial_midwest industrial_zones institutions investors midwest municipalities P&G PPP private_equity prospectuses Red_States venture_capital high_net_worth match-making networks network_density property_development rescue_investing tax_codes place-based economies_of_scale rust_belt assets low-income norms production-&-packaging https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bbcf2955aa82/ 2018-08-08T16:53:43+00:00 https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2018/08/07/how-are-you-going-to-manage-a-dollar-if-you-cant-manage-two-cents-asks-nigel-hughes/ jerryking>national infrastructural<< plan that covers at least a 20-year cycle. “You can’t have at every political cycle [i.e. = "electoral cycle"] if there is a change that you start changing your developmental plans. We are less than one million people. We need to be able to have some broad consensus on our development. Let us do it in a 20 to 25-year cycle. “We can tweak it depending on who gets elected, but at least we know where we going and how we getting there,” Hughes stated.]]> Guyana Guyanese oil_industry economic_development electoral_cycles national_cohesion national_initiatives national_strategies Nigel_Hughes national_infrastructure long-term https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9f1de5ea2485/ 2018-06-11T11:19:53+00:00 http://www.gabriellescrimshaw.com/ jerrykingwomen Stanford KSG MBAs aboriginals economic_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:aea5515e3c73/ 2018-05-15T02:00:19+00:00 https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2018/05/13/the-apnuafc-govt-and-african-guyanese-after-three-years-no-major-policy-initiative-that-targets-black-empowerment/ jerryking>PPP<< held office and which **African Guyanese** found revolting. But now, with their government in power, **African Guyanese** are behaving in the same manner. This >>hypocrisy<< by our >>ethnic communities<< is at the root of Guyana’s failure to move from the backward politics of colonial domination to a more enlightened politics that embrace >>equality of opportunity<< and national consensus as guiding principles. And this failure has impeded economic liberation from poverty and want, and kept us a poor, underdeveloped country.......Most African Guyanese live in the urban areas and in **ancestral villages**. But these spaces are hardly hubs of economic opportunities. Three years after its assumption of office, there is still no comprehensive **Urban and Village renewal** initiative. Many African Guyanese villages and communities don’t have markets, for example. Hence, there is little >>money circulation<< in those communities. I know there are many who would say that Village and Urban Renewal are not government business. I beg to disagree. The poor state of those communities is a direct result of government policies, so the repair job must be initiated by government policy. ]]> Afro-Guyanese economic_empowerment Guyana politics economically_disadvantaged economic_development economic_dynamism Guyanese revitalization institutions ethnic_communities David_Hinds African_Guyanese_villages equality_of_opportunity disempowerment money_circulation traitor_to_one's_class hypocrisy Indo-Guyanese myside_bias PPP urban_renewal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7b9eed51e994/ 2018-02-28T17:30:35+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/business/craft-breweries-local-economy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness jerryking breweries artisan_hobbies_&_crafts local economic_development New_York liquor trends beers craftsmanship commercial_real_estate https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0a926f220cdf/ 2016-05-28T19:20:38+00:00 http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2016/05/28/all-is-not-well-after-50-years-2/ jerryking Guyana anniversaries economic_development leadership colonialism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0caf00de71a3/ 2016-04-16T16:30:21+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/a-new-map-for-america.html?src=me&_r=1 jerryking mapping cities hubs Communicating_&_Connecting city-states economic_development regional infrastructure strategic_thinking crossborder clusters sorting geographic_sorting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c78867bf3329/ 2015-08-12T14:52:53+00:00 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2015/opinion/letters/08/12/granger-addressed-a-matter-of-importance-to-all-guyanese/ jerryking economic_development Guyana Afro-Guyanese Indo-Guyanese Guyanese entrepreneurship risk-taking psyche_of_dependency David_Granger cultural_values manufacturers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:84cd3c5f7e1a/ 2015-08-04T02:14:21+00:00 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2007/opinion/letters/12/14/louis-farrakhan-advised-african-guyanese-to-learn-skills-of-economic-empowerment-from-asians/ jerryking>mathematics<< and learn from Asians skills of >>economic empowerment<<, as a basis to be or remain competitive in the society and the world. He illustrated that Africans are still at the sentimental level of narrating that “the cow jump over the moon”, while others are trying to land on it. By mastering mathematics, he means mastering the foundation of >>logic, reasoning<< and rationality. To learn from Asians, is to understand and practice their attitudes and habits of frugality, collaboration, and investment. Sri Aurobindo, one of India’s most celebrated thinkers, in discussing India’s caste problems and cultural deficiencies, admitted that even though India has been a major contributor of spirituality to the world, it was stagnating itself by sentimentality and traditionalism which cost it over 500 invasions of its territory. He argued that Europeans are ahead of the world, and might remain so because they mastered the >>scientific methods<< of thinking and doing things. Apparently India listened, for a few years from now, it may be classified as a competitive scientific power. Examining the history of Guyana, we must admire and respect the Indo community for learning a substantial range of skills and knowledge from the Afro community, and then commercialising those skills and knowledge to the extent of employing the very Afro Guyanese who taught them. Indians are now significantly placed in every area of the Guyanese society, and as they consolidate and expand in areas, even where Afro Guyanese once dominated, the Afro community feels increasingly marginalised and threatened. The fundamental problem is that while Afro Guyanese were teaching Indians, they were not, in turn, learning enough from them. This disparity can be attributed to an element of >>arrogance<< in the creole culture of Afro Guyanese. [i.e. Afro-Guyanese need to practice "humility". Genuine humility is a reflection of neither weakness nor insecurity. Instead, it implies a respectful appreciation of the strengths of others, a lack of personal pretension and a more relaxed sense of confidence that doesn’t require external recognition]. He learnt through European Christian ideas, to his own detriment, to reject anything that was non-Christian in origin. On the other hand, the Hindu foundation of Indian creole culture teaches the value of >>learning from others<< for >>self-empowerment<<. That the Afro community interprets the Indian persistence for >>wealth creation<< and accumulation as (rapacious??) >>greed<<, rather than economic consolidation, and detests that, but keeps expecting >>economic development<< through the **good will of God** [i.e. = "hope is not a strategy"] and or others, is a fundamental difference. But this expectation is seen in the Indo community as a parasitic and non-progressive psyche or thinking. In the real world, no set of rights comes into being, is conferred, or survives, in the absence of >>enlightened self-interest<<, and or direct and indirect capacities to demand and or enforce them. **Economic power**[i.e. = "economic clout"] and **wisdom** are examples of indirect capacities of enforcement. Economic power finances the requisite activism. Wisdom sharpens the ability to do so. Wisdom derives from knowledge. Accurate knowledge generates better understanding, informed judgements, choices and applications. It is through intellectualism that we arrive at accurate knowledge and better understanding of things, rise above parochialism, and productively engage our intelligence. So, if Mobido dismisses, as “intellectual fantasy”, my awakening him to the wider Afro Guyanese reality, specifically, that the tendencies of Afro Guyanese leadership and the Afro community’s pattern of investment negligence, >>significantly contribute<< to the withering away of the Afro community’s capacity to secure its interests, I hope he is not trying to shelter from the cut and thrust of intellectual scrutiny. A major problem of this country is that we do not intellectualise enough [i.e. = "underthinking"]. This is evident in the conduct and performance of all institutions of this country and the quality of discussions we normally have, especially in context of analysis, forecasting, planning, implementation, and evaluation. We tend to be more driven by impressions, sentiments, prejudice, and pettiness. Thus creating more problems than we solve. Permit me to add here that rights are not void of responsibilities. A primary responsibility of the Afro community is to ensure that its leaders are people of integrity. He who lacks integrity could never protect your rights. Secondly, by democratic principles, one’s rights should never be pursued at the expense of the rights of others. If he so does, the other must be compensated to the extent of the injury caused. Or in extreme cases, his rights become forfeited to the extent of the hurt caused. So, for instance, he who murders also forfeits his right to life. In a democracy, the State is responsible for protecting and regulating one’s rights and procedures to address grievances. The laws of Guyana are very clear on issues such as torture and police brutality, for instance. But none of that would persist without the complicity of Afro Guyanese leaders/administrators within the armed forces.........while it may be convenient to attack the PPP government he should never blind himself to the fact that no aberration in governance is possible without collaboration from Afro Guyanese within the state system. So let’s talk about the purification of the State according to democratic ideals. ]]> Afro-Guyanese economic_development economic_empowerment Lin-Jay_Harry-Voglezon Louis_Farrakhan arrogance economic_clout hope_is_not_a_strategy Indo-Guyanese logic_&_reasoning mathematics scientific_method self-empowerment wealth_creation wisdom underthinking humility learning_from_others sharp_instincts greed rapaciousness aberrations significant_contributions enlightened_self-interest https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7c51c39a8afd/ 2015-07-22T02:10:46+00:00 http://www.salon.com/2014/11/09/it%E2%80%99s_symbolic_annihilation_of_history_and_it%E2%80%99s_done_for_a_purpose_it_really_enforces_white_supremacy_edward_baptist_on_the_lies_we_tell_about_slavery/ jerryking slavery the_South cotton history financial_history economic_development white_supremacy lying historical_amnesia Confederacy statues https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:be878f9904f1/ 2015-07-09T12:27:42+00:00 http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2014/07/13/my-country-is-what-it-is-because/ jerryking Singapore Guyana Guyanese Lee_Kuan_Yew books city-states economic_development economic_stagnation disappointment talent_flight https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f937e42e2e53/ 2015-04-26T02:54:23+00:00 http://www.oxera.com/Oxera/media/Oxera/downloads/reports/What-is-the-economic-impact-of-Geo-services_1.pdf jerrykingLBMA location_based_services economic_development economic_impact https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a7136eecc5f2/ 2015-04-20T16:17:30+00:00 http://www.bcg.com/documents/file109372.pdf jerrykinglocation_based_services LBMA JCK economic_development economy BCG management_consulting geospatial growth_engines https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:96c8e1f3b321/ 2015-03-31T03:50:58+00:00 http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2014/08/23/singapore-reminds-us-of-burnham-and-the-pncs-colossal-failure/ jerryking Singapore Guyana PNC economic_development Lee_Kuan_Yew LFSB economic_stagnation Michael_Maxwell https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a2f229317af4/ 2015-03-24T03:16:44+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/rob-insight/from-jungle-to-juggernaut-how-singapore-pulled-off-its-economic-miracle/article23585645/ jerryking Singapore economic_development Lee_Kuan_Yew https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:519b70f60b77/ 2015-03-16T14:02:01+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/jobs-transit-and-the-future-how-an-empty-lot-at-the-foot-of-toronto-could-transform-it/article23461556/ jerryking economic_development Elizabeth_Church job_creation Unilever Don_River SmartTrack transportation transit planning cities infrastructure rethinking revitalization waterfronts East_Harbour https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d9e6d3ddeebb/ 2015-01-19T14:50:46+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rust-belt-revival-lessons-for-southwestern-ontario-from-americas-industrial-heartland/article22489159/ jerryking>counterbalance<< their resistance to government spending with a willingness to spend heavily themselves. In Grand Rapids, Mich., it was only later in the 20th century that a small number of business leaders and their families –almost exclusively Republicans – responded to their city becoming a ghost town by pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into it. First, that included funds for infrastructure and >>anchor institutions<<: a new arena, a convention centre and hospital expansions. More recently, it has meant funding ArtPrize, an enormous three-week arts festival that has helped turn the west Michigan town into a destination. It is impossible to get through a conversation in Grand Rapids without hearing about philanthropy. “You don’t participate in this community if you don’t give time and treasure,” says John Kennedy, a staunch conservative who started an auto-parts company in the 1980s that is now worth over $250-million. “I’m not talking about giving back, because I don’t believe in that. I’m talking about investing in the future of the community.”.......... Not all the start-ups and emerging businesses in Grand Rapids are as sexy. Some are tied to >>auto parts<< and >>office furniture<<, the traditional manufacturing around which Grand Rapids was built. Others are in communications technology or health sciences. Notwithstanding some growing financial-services companies, they tend to fit into the region’s proud history of making things.[i.e. ">>monozukuri<<," or the art of making things [i.e. = "manufacturing know-how"] As the Brookings Institute’s Vey notes, that tradition – and the accompanying institutional knowledge and infrastructure – can help Rust Belt cities take advantage of the current “maker’s movement,” in which a DIY culture makes the manufacturing market accessible to small enterprises. ]]> revitalization rust_belt Southwestern_Ontario industrial_Midwest economic_development Pittsburgh urban urban_decline philanthropy cities DIY entrepreneurship start_ups manufacturers Makerspace Colleges_&_Universities institutional_knowledge monozukuri Adam_Radwanski anchor_institutions know-how counterbalance auto-parts office_furniture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:19c644b0ace2/ 2014-09-08T01:12:59+00:00 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/opinion/letters/01/08/if-enough-african-guyanese-return-to-their-capitalist-roots-guyana%E2%80%99s-economic-future-will-see-improvement/ jerryking>personal saving rate<<, low investment rate, business >>risk aversion<<, low communal wealth generation endeavours and high public sector and service sector participation rate. ...A bigger problem for African-Guyanese capitalism and entrepreneurism is its >>lack of support<< [i.e. = "cohesiveness"/"recursiveness"/" reinvestment"/ "social cohesion"] from its own group. African-Guyanese businessmen and the community must lead the charge in educating African-Guyanese about the benefits of personal and commercial wealth generation......The greatest form of empowerment is economic empowerment, and dramatically so for a poor people in a poor nation. That is the true measure of freedom. Without a strong African-Guyanese capitalist class in Guyana alongside the Indian-Guyanese capitalist class the nation cannot achieve a decent path of economic progress. Wealth creation is not an alien concept to African-Guyanese who were the first independent producers in Guyana **after slavery** before becoming a mostly entrenched consumer and service providing class to the primary capitalists. ]]> Afro-Guyanese capitalism letters_to_the_editor economic_development Guyana self-discipline self-employment self-help generational_wealth individual_initiative economic_empowerment risk-aversion public_sector distrust disunity support_systems consumer_mindset producer_mindset community_support wealth_creation personal_savings_rate hurdles cohesiveness recursiveness social_cohesion lack_of_support economic_independence post-slavery savings reinvestment Lin-Jay_Harry-Voglezon Michael_Maxwell self-determination https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a6a5c805b45c/ 2014-08-19T01:39:09+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/first-nations-hold-the-key-to-the-northern-gateway-pipeline/article19213035/#dashboard/follows/ jerryking aboriginals pipelines economic_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:18706bda4e4f/ 2014-08-06T10:26:47+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-liberals-promise-1-billion-for-ring-of-fire/article18835742/#dashboard/follows/ jerryking Ring_of_Fire Ontario Liberals economic_development mining natural_resources Northern_Ontario https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d93be7379637/ 2014-07-17T03:53:22+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/articles/brics-agree-to-base-development-bank-in-shanghai-1405453660?KEYWORDS=Trevisani jerryking economic_development BRIC Vladimir_Putin IMF World_Bank infrastructure long-term https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fcedece5d065/ 2014-05-19T02:14:55+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/the-mayoral-magicians-of-job-creation/article18737068/#dashboard/follows/ jerryking Marcus_Gee mayoral elections economic_development job_creation candidates John_Tory Olivia_Chow https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3a6561a3f139/ 2014-01-06T00:53:54+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/19/magazine/hopefuls-street-toughs-power-brokers-networkers-strivers-grande-dames-musclemen-603660.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm jerryking churches African-Americans New_York_City economic_development strivers power_brokers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d2b8d7022d47/ 2013-12-16T00:09:42+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/nyregion/bloomberg-focuses-on-rest-as-in-rest-of-world.html?pagewanted=all jerryking>large-scale<< experiments in public health, economic development and environmental sustainability. Above all, the new endeavor reflects a profound confidence — never in short supply with this mayor — that it would behoove dozens of municipalities to replicate the ideas that defined his tenure: turning busy roads into pedestrian plazas, posting calorie counts in fast-food chains, creating a customer-service hotline for citizens....The consulting group is the latest chapter in Mr. Bloomberg’s long journey from political neophyte to much-admired mentor to fellow mayors, dozens of whom have flocked to City Hall to study his open-seat bullpen layout, attended his conferences about urban innovation and applied for grants from his foundation (called “mayors’ school” by several city leaders who have spent time there). ]]> Michael_Bloomberg New_York_City Second_Acts management_consulting data data_driven cities mayoral large-scale public_health economic_development sustainability environment hotlines Bloomberg_Associates https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ddddd50f73d8/ 2013-12-02T00:38:28+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/canadas-future-depends-on-a-new-deal-with-our-first-nations/article15674328/#dashboard/follows/ jerryking>equity participation<<; governments are beginning to address issues of revenue sharing.]]> aboriginals economic_development Bob_Rae natural_resources capacity-building paradigm_shifts reconciliation equity_participation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fda955288069/ 2013-11-28T14:53:06+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/how-jeffrey-sachs-failed-to-save-africa/article14436055/#dashboard/follows/ jerryking>master plan<< was undermined by culture.....Other economists have been skeptical for quite some time. They argue that the data showing results are far from rigorous, and that the design of the project makes proper evaluation impossible. What makes Ms. Munk's critique so compelling is the legwork she put in on the ground.....Recent history is littered with the wreckage of grand plans to save Africa. So why should we care about another? Because, Ms. Munk argues, "Oversimplification is terribly dangerous." Promises that can't be kept invariably result in disappointment, cynicism and donor fatigue. Western taxpayers are increasingly reluctant to fund foreign aid without some assurance that it works.......The moral of her story is that the last thing Africa needs is more Great Professors. As she says, "I think we'd all be a lot better off if we were a little more humble."]]> economics Africa economic_development Margaret_Wente Jeffrey_Sachs economists failure human_factor assessments_&_evaluations books culture Culture_eats_strategy_for_breakfast humility idealism master_plans technocrats hubris https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:749b8154c7ea/ 2013-11-23T04:33:46+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-urged-to-get-act-together-to-save-ring-of-fire-development/article15575859/#dashboard/follows/ jerryking Ring_of_Fire Ontario economic_development mining natural_resources Northern_Ontario https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1942dafaa139/ 2013-09-28T17:59:36+00:00 https://secure.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/gam/20130927/ROBMAG_OCT2013_P9_10 jerryking economic_development Gordon_Pitts Atlantic_Canada immigration immigrants Kevin_Lynch thinking_big https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fa5cac68d218/ 2013-09-26T18:37:41+00:00 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2007/opinion/letters/11/20/african-guyanese-leaders-must-be-much-more-development-oriented/ jerryking>Afro Guyanese<< in the bloated public service sector which was unsustainable, and the practice of giving them opportunities on the basis of party cards, as a way of up-keeping the government, would >>backfire<< on the community. He meant that when the system of things changed the community would be >>uncompetitive<< for it would by then have nurtured the wrong ethics, expectations, and attitudes. The >>psyche of dependency<< on the state [i.e. = Afro-Guyanese's "collective psyche"] would be so ingrained [i.e. = in their "cultural DNA"] that it would fail to be as resourceful as it is ought to be and was capable of being........I have argued in the past that the Afro community, owing to its historical conditions of survival, had crystallized a false sense of importance and security under PNC governance. I indicated that it is not a government of black faces, PNC or otherwise that would transform the Afro communities, but transformation in cultural ideas and economic groundings, which could be induced through changed conditions of survival and an improved understanding of self. Of all Afro leaders, Walter Rodney was best trained and equipped to lead that transformation. His death was a tremendous loss. This additional response to Osafo Modibo’s letters is that the problems at Buxton are fundamentally symptomatic of cultural and economic deficiencies. While Modibo accuses myself and others of being silent on the extremities in that village he fails to acknowledge that the very executors of the excesses are mainly Afro Guyanese. The Afro community should realise that the highest form of emancipation would be when every black child grows up with the doctrine that he must be black, honourable [i.e. = "black pride"] and economically creative.[i.e. = "resourcefulness"] So whether he is poor, rich, or an officer of state he must never pawn his common sense [i.e. = "think for yourself"---"The most dangerous person in a democracy is the blind partisan who outsources her opinions to politicians or an ideology, and who sees those who don’t agree as enemies to be righteously chased from town by a torch-wielding mob."] and dignity to others.]]> letters_to_the_editor economic_development Afro-Guyanese ethnic_communities entrepreneurship mindsets generational_wealth public_sector psyche_of_dependency Cheddi_Jagan cultural_values false_sense_of_security uncompetitive PNC Walter_Rodney African_Guyanese_villages Buxton self-determination self-reliance self-rescue self-salvation self-sufficiency human_psyche leaders leadership self-education self-employment dignity resourcefulness black_pride self-awareness Lin-Jay_Harry-Voglezon self-sustaining backfire bloating collective_psyche F._Skinner common_sense think_for_yourself over-concentration cultural_DNA https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bdff29dc10aa/ 2013-08-27T12:53:37+00:00 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2011/opinion/letters/05/19/african-guyanese-need-to-invest-time-and-resources-in-agriculture/ jerryking>get out of their comfort zone<< and are prepared to take risks, they will always remain at the bottom of the economic ladder. No government, no church, no political party will be the catalyst for their economic upliftment and survival. Too much time has elapsed and Afro guyanese continue to cherish a lifestyle of sustained ignorance and poverty. Afro guyanese should take a **look at their fellow Indo guyanese** [i.e. = "learning from others"]. Indo guyanese are risk takers and long term planners. Any race or people without a ">>blue-print<< [i.e. = "master plan"], is doomed for failure and a poverty stricken life. It's high time that Afro guyanese get off their "high horse, " do away with false pride, get their pretty hands "soil dirty" and get their act together. Indo guyanese prospered under Burnham, despite adversities, why Afro guyanese cannot do like wise under Jagdeo. Or, are we awaiting "manna" to fall from the skies. ]]> letters_to_the_editor Afro-Guyanese agriculture wealth_creation ethnic_communities economic_development entrepreneurship mindsets public_sector overrepresentation farming fresh_produce non-traditional generational_wealth self-employment frugality downward_spirals poverty public_servants paradigm_shifts African_Guyanese_villages psyche_of_dependency Guyana consumer_mindset producer_mindset young_people strangleholds foreparents diminished_circumstances foresight forward_looking Indo-Guyanese time_horizons bribery corruption black_families pushing_beyond_one's_comfort_zone learning_from_others multifactorial blueprints master_plans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:707ec7c2c8ea/ 2013-08-27T12:37:38+00:00 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/opinion/letters/08/21/african-guyanese-would-require-an-empowering-familial-ethnic-environment-and-an-enabling-political-economic-one-to-be-successful-in-business/ jerryking>conversation<< is centred around business matters or matters to do with the production and supply of goods and services.[i.e. = "family"/"family dynamics"] Sadly, African Guyanese may be more inclined to discuss the day’s purchases rather than the day’s sales, for the simple reason that African Guyanese economic activity tends more towards consumption rather than production or supply. Generally speaking, African Guyanese do not see themselves as having the means to produce ‒ land, labour or capital ‒ at their disposal, yet see these as prerequisites for venturing into business for themselves. The problem is compounded by the near absence of ethnic >>role models<<. In this sense I feel the problem is one of environment as much as education. In fact the two go hand in hand. Though as >>Carl Greenidge<< says, “The education system should be teaching students about the value of business and what is required to be an entrepreneur” and has failed to do so, the system on its own cannot teach people to be risk takers. It is only the immediate environment that can build the level of >>self-confidence<< required to make the difference. There is no substitute for growing up in the environment of a family which is not dysfunctional where Uncle Peter is a car dealer, Aunt Sharon owns a supermarket and Cousin Kimberly owns a successful restaurant.[i.e. = "family interests"] These close-to-home realities have a far greater impact on a young person’s realization that they too can become a successful business person.]]> Afro-Guyanese letters_to_the_editor economic_development entrepreneurship generational_wealth consumption role_models entrepreneur risk-taking factors_of_production family cultural_values consumer_mindset producer_mindset rituals dining Carl_Greenidge family_interests family_dynamics conversations self-confidence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b1ca93532a48/ 2013-08-23T15:38:55+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canada-competes/who-needs-casinos-five-better-ideas-to-rev-up-communities/article13906159/?page=all jerryking economic_development competitiveness_of_nations Canada MaRS Ilse_Treurnicht CEOs food https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:53e4daef50af/ 2013-08-07T03:35:18+00:00 http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/08/06/indiscipline-is-the-root-of-our-problems/ jerryking>break the law< self-discipline attitudes cheating economic_development Guyana Guyanese indiscipline lawlessness mindsets root_cause orderly_lives social_order belligerence orderliness loose_cultures rule-breaking rule-observant https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c1c282e55703/ 2013-07-08T02:25:06+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/debate-flares-up-over-ring-of-fire/article13049784/ jerryking Ring_of_Fire Ontario Bob_Rae aboriginals economic_development mining Northern_Ontario https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4028e661cf55/ 2013-06-28T12:30:32+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324904004578539373656398096.html jerryking start_ups St._Louis cities municipalities economic_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d21995e13114/ 2013-06-02T12:29:12+00:00 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139109/shantayanan-devarajan-and-wolfgang-fengler/africas-economic-boom?page=show jerryking Africa economic_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:24809803a6df/ 2013-03-23T00:19:18+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/17CUm__TIgQD0yD2bvDkqQyI1FAJUV6-Na0up96AX1ns/edit jerryking aboriginals land_claim_settlements banks investment_advice economic_development investment_management BMO British_Columbia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:83e940290eb7/ 2013-02-19T12:18:43+00:00 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2007/opinion/letters/01/06/the-struggle-for-african-social-and-economic-rights-must-continue/ jerryking Afro-Guyanese economic_development letters_to_the_editor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:85451dd28a59/ 2013-02-13T06:51:56+00:00 http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/01/25/culture-and-development-2/ jerryking guyana economic_development culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:beb35644aa71/ 2013-02-10T15:53:38+00:00 http://m.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/canadas-african-adventure-takes-a-colonial-turn/article8127362/?service=mobile jerryking>large-scale<< aid strategy in which its agencies work with resource companies, alongside charities and private aid groups, in a way that, in the words of International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino, “addresses social and environmental issues of extractive sector development” and helps countries “use resource rents and investment to spur economic diversification in local communities, often focused on agricultural and agribusiness development.” It makes some sense: Canada ought to be providing this sort of aid to the people it’s contacting – sometimes beneficially, sometimes otherwise – with its resource-taking activities. But the end effect is that Canada has landed in Africa in a big way: tearing up the land, building new towns, creating roads and pipelines and airports, and bringing in new forms of government and administration to create new economies and enforce human rights and democratic standards. This bears a strong resemblance to what the military calls counterinsurgency: To make the local population tolerate your forceful acts and embrace your cause, you win over their hearts and minds by **building roads**, schools, water supplies and better farms. In the process, though, you become something like a colonial government. Canada, not yet fully free from its own years as a colony, is far from comfortable with this role. We ought to find some other name, and some other shape, for our African project.]]> Africa economic_development natural_resources mining Canada Doug_Saunders foreign_aid corruption oil_industry engineering colonialism large-scale resource_extraction CSR economic_diversification counterinsurgency hearts-and-minds road-building https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5ea9c5a05379/ 2013-02-10T15:31:26+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/the-junction-for-art-and-design-types-it-still-feels-like-anything-is-possible-here/article7543895/ jerryking neighbourhoods Toronto artists galleries movingonup Junction art economic_development design art_galleries https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:65490e7948c5/ 2013-02-09T03:00:06+00:00 http://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/features/frankly-speaking/02/08/african-heritage-rampant-indianisation/ jerryking Afro-Guyanese Indo-Guyanese Guyana economic_development Allan_Fenty https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:120f95ea0352/ 2013-02-05T09:49:33+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/how-benign-mississauga-is-catching-up-to-world-class-toronto/article4702399/ jerryking Mississauga Toronto economic_development cities waterfronts densification urban_intensification Peel_Region https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:30c536774f60/ 2013-01-31T21:26:31+00:00 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8QqaQt_ecJlMkdGU0U3M1EtdUk/edit jerryking Zimbabwe 3rdWorld economic_development despots William_Easterly UN https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bdfd9b4b4645/ 2013-01-06T14:56:05+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/too-many-first-nations-people-live-in-a-dream-palace/article6929035/ jerryking> prime minister << should not be blackmailed into doing what any group or individual wants....Much of the rhetoric surrounding Chief Spence is of the usual dreamy, flamboyant variety, a mixture of anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism, blended with the mythology (blasted by the reality of what one actually sees on too many reserves) about environmental protection and the aboriginals’ sacred link to their lands....To imagine that isolated communities of a thousand or so people can be vibrant and self-sustaining, capable of discharging the panoply of responsibilities [i.e. = "communal responsibility"] of “sovereignty,” is to live within the dream palace of memory. ]]> aboriginals Jeffrey_Simpson self-delusions protests economic_development Stephen_Harper myths anti-capitalism anti-colonialism self-reliance self-sustaining sovereignty anti-development emotional_blackmail rhetoric wishful_thinking delusions tender-mindedness descendants comforting_illusions prime_ministers communal_responsibility Idle_No_More sovereign_capabilities https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:71708db51270/ 2013-01-02T14:10:53+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/absolutism-in-the-church-of-green/article6773233/ jerryking Absolutism environment green natural_resources economic_development public_policy consequences resource_development anti-development resource_extraction hard_choices https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8b9621f55b90/ 2012-11-25T16:41:30+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/world/americas/swallowing-rain-forest-brazilian-cities-surge-in-amazon.html?hp&pagewanted=all jerryking Brazil Amazon_forest cities urban urbanization deforestation population_growth economic_development inland affluence internal_migration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:81223298f98c/ 2012-11-21T15:29:35+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/opinion/friedman-obamas-moment.html?hp&_r=0 jerryking Obama Tom_Friedman economic_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3bb3dc779e92/ 2012-10-19T19:06:21+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/african-and-mideast-business/africa-steps-up-its-game-with-asia-style-development/article4622171/ jerryking Chrystia_Freeland Africa economic_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d99f8de7d3ea/ 2012-09-17T06:43:30+00:00 http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/09/4-lessons-building-stronger-tech-economy-cities/3288/ jerryking cities Detroit economic_development lessons_learned depopulation hard_times https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d2dfaf72bd40/ 2012-08-22T12:33:12+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/first-nations-must-be-partners-not-an-afterthought/article4492344/ jerryking economic_development Aboriginals afterthoughts https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:91fc586e724f/ 2012-08-03T12:23:26+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106091556924243700,00.html jerryking>authoritarian<<," but "seeks to run a >>rule-based<< society, not one run by mercurial fiat." In the book "Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa," author Keith Richburg recalls asking Mr. Museveni why Africa hadn't developed. Mr. Museveni ascribed it to "discipline." He added, "I tend to find more discipline among the Ugandan Asians than among the Africans," though he couldn't fully explain why. Cultural differences clearly are key. Prosperous societies can't exist in a vacuum. As economist Thomas Sowell has shown, the cultural values of a people strongly influence their skills, choices of work and level of success. So the real question for Africans must be, "How can we change our cultural values in order to promote freedom and prosperity?" Unfortunately, until those values do change, Africa will continue to be poor. ]]> letters_to_the_editor Africa Uganda economists values Thomas_Sowell self-help economic_development self-discipline cultural_values books rules-based poverty authoritarianism prosperity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e5cd9b7bb2a9/ 2012-07-08T06:57:14+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/magazine/what-greece-makes-the-world-might-take.html?src=me&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all jerryking>flouted the feta ruling<< [i.e. = lack of "enforcement"] and invested in their own food-science >>research<< and manufacturing equipment. They subsequently turned the salty, crumbly cheese into spreadable, grillable, fat-free and >>shelf-stable<< forms. In Italy and Spain, small olive-oil producers merged into globally competitive conglomerates and replaced presses with more efficient centrifugal technology. The two countries now provide nearly all the world’s supply. And the Greeks, despite their numerous inherent advantages, remain in the least profitable part of the >>supply chain<<, exporting >>raw materials<< at slim margins. Tassos Chronopoulos, owner of Tassos, a Greek food importer based outside Chicago, says that the country’s disorganized agricultural business all but disqualified itself from partaking in the fancy-food craze of the past few decades. Greek growers never banded together to establish uniform >>quality standards<< and trade rules. ]]> Greece Greek economic_development food disorganization cheese innovation standardization quality dairy agribusiness France Denmark agriculture farming food_science foodservice supply_chains gourmet foodies value_chains quality_control rules_of_the_game conglomerates competitiveness_of_nations disunity technical_standards geographic_ingredient_branding olive_oils raw_materials cultural_appropriation cultural_commodities cultural_products R&D shelf-stable enforcement quality_standards flouting_the_rules https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8d76de7cb31b/ 2012-07-01T15:39:05+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-d76Y2OiVpRmlVAWOyU-YkHJsuH8jYCv2qaOADZDNmc/edit jerryking globalization Diaspora remittances economic_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c103b5eb1f39/ 2012-06-26T13:22:13+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w0EhSH8SodGONFvpypsoqp0upoj0BvnF6Q3i2vOzTpc/edit jerryking management_consulting Minnesota small_business manufacturers economic_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:178a3b498410/ 2012-06-22T03:20:49+00:00 http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1146 jerryking Africa challenges economic_development Kenya Nigeria resource_extraction private_equity funding Egypt South_Africa financial_institutions investing investors telecommunications https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:884ad013962b/ 2012-06-19T21:56:06+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vcdmZkYcqFqnH7XQCPA_cFS5GBEm02l3_0y0ZxFl1P0/edit jerryking>know-how<< to build significant businesses [i.e. = "consequential"/"high-impact"] that can employ large numbers of people," Hill says. "I'm developing people [i.e. = "talent development"] and I can help by opening doors that no one else can open"...."lf I were to come along today, l would get an MBA. I would aim for management and finance and I would be drawn to >>economic development<< -- especially ways to stimulate the urban economy and help Black people be employed," Hill says. "I just don't believe there is any **higher calling** for a talented business person these days than to tackle the job of developing our communities."]]> African-Americans trailblazers retirement Atlanta entrepreneur airports actuarial_science urban economic_development consequential high-impact highest_purpose know-how job_creation talent_development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3dec43b08bff/