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For those government leaders who are power hungry, yet who are not Muslims, they fear a loss of political, economic and other power. Dictators, like bullies everywhere, have differing types of power.
As of Fall, 2006, an entire continent What does not make much sense to me is why any leader, in Africa, chooses to engage in political power plays 24/7 instead of representing all his/her constituents. This includes those who came to power with "good intentions" and soon found neighboring leaders visiting and offering to wage war against the newly elected leader if the new leader does not offer some type of bribe. This bribe comes in the form of religious, natural resources, political and other limitations. Thus, to keep a president's people from immediate war, it is often that a newly elected leader has to "sell out" his own people in order to protect them. [Yes, the United Nations is supposed to help nations that are threatened in this way but it does not work as intended!]
Let's consider, however, aside from the threats of a neighbor, what the benefits could be if a Democratically or even a Socialistically elected leader were to serve is citizenry first!
Our first discovery would be that, all a nation's natural resources would be used to benefit both the government treasury and that of the populace. Entrepreneurial citizens could seek out export markets for their newly found goods and cause a higher standard of living as a result.
Also, if there were fewer restrictions on the types of businesses one could involve in, one could produce and sell liquor, media, and multiple religious items. These items alone could keep a nation's treasury in a surplus status!
A nation's citizenry's health is a consequence of available, affordable health care, low unemployment, quality no cost [to the family] elementary and secondary education, availability of a university education, and a religious system not in control of the government.
NOW that I have waxed both analytical and philosophically-let's see what we can do that is easy and that has DRAMATIC effects instantly!
In India, a few banks are making MICRO loans to ladies in small villages to enable them to grow their micro companies. These ladies make clothes by hand and other items for sale to local users and merchants. Using these loans, these ladies are able to rise above poverty.
I commend this. And I reprimand the bank. It is good; the bank can do better.
Let's take this idea and expand upon it for an even greater benefit! If we could find a politically safe area where the national government would not steal the cash or murder the recipients [very likely in many nations as the Muslim armies on horseback attack villagers in some Christian regions of some African nations], the economic consequences could be like this:
A bank or private investor [protected from outsiders] makes combinations of loans and investments into local entrepreneur's businesses. Each entrepreneur [with our help] creates a formal business plan. This entrepreneur can either choose to sell only to local businesses that have the resources to buy what the entrepreneur wants to sell-or-preferably, the entrepreneur will sell to both local and "regional" merchants. Our entrepreneur will sell to both retail and wholesale users-as long as the merchant is protected so the entrepreneur does not bite the hand that buys from it.
Perhaps in a village, entrepreneurs want to sell both fresh grown food and butchered food and home made items that have a demand unmet by other merchants. It is always superior to sell goods and services where there is an unmet demand compared to selling to the same customers as most of the other entrepreneurs in a given area [5 tomato entrepreneurs will sell fewer goods to local merchants than they will to regional merchants who only have corn growers.]
Perhaps also, an entrepreneur has mechanics skills and can do regular maintenance or repair the few vehicles that exist instead of forcing the vehicle owner to drive to larger, more distant cities.
As long as applicable needed infrastructure exists, entrepreneurs need to find UNMET needs before they become a "me too" supplier of goods and services.
Societies grow because of a common initial interest [desert dwellers, mountain men, sea shore fishermen, etc]. In time, based on several factors, a population grows from within and from immigrants.
Regardless where a community lives, and regardless its political and religious slants/ideologies, it needs the same basic necessities of life; food, clothing and shelter. When those immediate needs have been satisfied, the writer Abraham Maslow guides us to people's other needs and wants via his Hierarchy of Needs, which include such things as education, health care, entertainment, communication, transportation and more. He has names for them such as social, safety, and self-actualization.
Without waiting for the local village, region or federal government officials to act, a people need to decide what goods and services they want. When the demand is greater than the supply, the entrepreneur is available to supply any such goods and services in demand.
This paper is attempting to show how this continent's residents can have both a better life and at the same time, how Africa can be a fertile ground for entrepreneurship. While salaries are minuscule, they will in time, grow, as salaries are a factor of a free economy-and all economies inevitably become free or have a freer economy hiding from their dictators! A free economy and a democratic political environment are essential for people to grow at their chosen speed and in their preferred manners/ways!
As each new small business begins and grows, it needs more staff. Quickly, this growth will consume the roles of the unemployed and consequently, more villages will begin to have their own "modern" infrastructures such as hospitals or at least clinics, all levels of formal schools, improved transportation services, and even entertainment. [It puzzles this author when he discovers that some entire communities and nations abhor entertainment. There are even some religions that prohibit dancing at weddings. According to anthropologists, dances were created for weddings!]
As each new business grows, eating up the unemployed roles, salaries will again, climb. Why dictators try to stop this amazes me. If the government does the math and instead of pocketing all available money for their own Swiss bank accounts for later use, they would finance start-ups, the available dollars for their private use would increase tremendously.
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