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Commonwealth Secretariat meeting 6-7 July London Sustaining development in small states
Promoting small states growth and development in the global economy
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states: J L Roberts
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Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
• Past Eras for Policy and Action on SD
1970s Raising awareness
1980s Global Treaties
1990s Legislation and national commitments
2000s Strategies, Goals, Grand projects
2010s New Era for what?
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
From Crisis to rescue G20 Pledges of support UN Review of IFI structures and functions World Bank rescue packages• For 2009, the bank supported 767 projects to promote economic growth, fight
poverty, and assist private businesses…
The ‘Unholy Trinity’ (IMF, WB,WTO)(Richard Peet) still in business preserving the status quo ante
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
Into a new era? Gemeinschaft or community
Gesellschaft or association (concepts in social theory
(from the German sociologists Ferdinand Tonnies and Max Weber)
Taking us forward into a fresh framework for sustainable development?
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
• Community: individuals, family, kinship, neighbourhood, village – common culture and mores
• Association: commercial company, professional group, state, federation- corporate objectives, division of labour, specialisation, business management
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small
states J L Roberts
Partners Partnerships
AssociatesColleaguesAccomplicesPlayers in a sideCompanions in a dance
or Strengthening to a hole in a ship’s deck for a capstan
What is the best narrative for us?
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
• Dominant Social Paradigm (DSP)
Technical progress which promotes marginal productivity to increase for the same levels of factors of production
This approach to economic development threatens the outstanding natural assets in Small and island states when it values such natural wealth at zero.
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
New Environmental Paradigm (NEP)
Seeks to redress the environmental impact of development by
Prevention and mitigation measuresValuing natural resources explicitly in the system
of social welfare accounts. .
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
People of small States
Low ecological footprint
High on the Happy Planet Index Smallness means close to government Remoteness a protective shield
But without awareness and drive, highly vulnerable to
ecosystem collapse. The lost Dodo: a metaphor for the perils of inaction.
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
‘Man aspires to the stars. But if he can only get his sewage and refuse distributed and utilized in an orderly fashion, he will be doing well.’ Roy Bridger On Progress in The Times
A heap of trash that's twice the size of Texas, 80% plastic, and weighs 3.5 million tons. Trapped in a circular course by winds and currents The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
Centres of Excellence
Islands and Small States Institute at the Foundation for International Studies, the Malta University Centre Gozo, Malta.
Education & training Consultation and expert networks Information Analysis Publications R & D Professor Briguglio leading an international
meeting
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• European Commission’s new form of enhanced General budget support called "MDG Contract”
• First version -€225 million to the Government of Zambia for a 6 year period (2009-2014): to
• Support poverty-focused public programmes
• Accelerate progress towards MDGs.
• Focus health and education
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
Clinical Economics
The Jeffrey Sachs Ruhiira Partnership
Millennium Villages projects
‘Challenge to pessimists and sceptics.’ Guardian
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80Trial villages in sub-Saharan Africa –
• Objective: Achieve MDGs by 2015 on US$110 per person per year (30 cents per
day) over five-years
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Income levels rising: malnutrition falling
Gender improvements
School enrolment up:
Malaria incidence halved:
Maternal mortality reduced
Better communications and inter-village trade
Sachs’ Millennium Village Project three year results
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The development narrative sound bite Spat!
Think globally act locally: UN policy (Att. Rene Dubos)
Think globally act nationally: International aid through macro-economic budget support programmes
Act locally think globally: Jeffrey Sachs clinical economics in the millennium village project
Sachs on development with people in villages
Clinical economics
‘Development economics needs an overhaul to be more like modern medicine, a profession of rigor, insight and practicality.’
‘The end of poverty must start in the villages’
‘The poor are ready to act..individually and collectively …through networks of mutual accountability and networks of financing’
Community with Associations
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states
J L Roberts
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states
J L Roberts
South-South Clusters
Michael Porter and Paul Krugman cluster model
Singapore science park with World Bank, AfDB, IES Business clusters Sectoral clusters Knowledge clusters Supply services clusters
UN CSD thematic cluster linkages in SD
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
• Variable geometry for technical support
North-southSouth-southSouth-north
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
CARICOM: partnership through AssociationsOver 50 major development Associations
Climate change Disasters Coastal and marine Land use Transport Science and technology Justice R&D Management and finance
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
Professional modelEvidence base, theory and guidelines of best practiceSyllabus for basic and continuing education Professional body for training, exams & disciplineMonitoring and evaluationR&DThe top professional surgeon scrubbed in the operating
theatre: the inverted hierarchy of evidence-based science.
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
Areas for new professional partnershipsClimate changeDisaster managementFreshwaterLand useTourismBiodiversityTechnology transferEconomics for development & green accounting
Exploring new sources of partnerships for small states J L Roberts
Community: senior partner in developmentIFI south oriented architectureCompanions in a dance not accomplices From DSP to NEPSmall is beautiful and ecologically light footedCentres of excellence for evidence based SDGetting the sewage and refuse sortedNew professions for SD to get on with the jobVariable geometry for SD with the South-north links