According to Sheila Herrling, US MCC Vice President for Policy and Evaluation, Obama administration made history by developing the United States first "Global Development Policy", ever.
The President emphasized the fundamental tenets of sustainable development: Partner with select countries willing to take the lead and invest in broad-based economic growth through transparent and mutually-accountable ways that tap the talents of all their people and unleash transformational change.....He defined "development” as more than just aid, which, while an important ingredient, won’t drive sustained growth as much as trade and investment. The speech is a bold call and now, collectively, U.S. Government agencies, working with partners in the private sector and nongovernmental community, need to respond.
"MCC has six years of experience testing and implementing the principles at the center of the President’s policy: investing in economic growth, promoting country-led development, demanding accountability, and focusing on transparency and concrete results".
"President Obama made it clear that the United States will be a global leader in international development in the 21st century.....America’s security and prosperity are inextricably linked to the security and prosperity of all countries, particularly the world’s poorest".
For now a decade, the Biotech tropicana SMARTalternativeTECHS are making a difference, promoting change toward sustainable development, in the resource poor seetings.
The Biotech tropicana Systems welcomes president Obama's new "Global Development Policy".
OBAMA, UN MDG, and and a new US Global Development Approach
On September 22, 2010, president Barack Obama announced a new "big-hearted, hard-headed" US foreign aid strategy, warning the world would miss ambitious 2015 anti-poverty goals if it did not change its approach.
The new US presidential AID plan against extreme poverty proposed, an increase in the amount of US AID, and also an increase requierment in « accountability » from the developing world US AID recipients.
The Biotech tropicana Systems salute this initiative of the Obama Administration. The founder orders the establishment of a special advisory unit under the Biotech tropicana,IncGROUP Sciences and Technology Development Body to,
a) Synthesize the concepts underlying the new Obama Administration global development assistance proposal,
b) monitor the evolution of the concepts,
c) and conduct an analysis of the concepts in relation with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDG), and the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation(US MCC).
Below we provide links to analysis by two independent groups :
1) According to an analysis by Christi Parsons and Paul Richter of Los Angeles Times :
President ‘s proposed plan will « change the way we do business » by putting a new focus on self-reliance and market forces to create a path out of poverty. The U.S. aim is not to simply dole out aid but to create "the conditions where assistance is no longer needed,". The program will reward countries willing to cooperate in their own improvement. "We will seek partners who want to build their own capacity to provide for their people," Obama said. "We will seek development that is sustainable. . . . The days when your development was dictated in foreign capitals must come to an end." Obama spoke during a week in which world leaders have been focused on the United Nations' chief antipoverty program, the Millennium Development Goals, a 15-year plan launched in 2000. The new U.S. program, set up after a lengthy review, builds on the Bush administration's Millennium Challenge Corporation concept, which aimed to give special rewards to countries that seek to improve their own development and governance in specified ways. Obama said that the new program would put a strong emphasis on broad economic growth, which he hailed as "the most powerful force the world has ever known for eradicating poverty and creating opportunity." He said economic growth had turned South Korea "from a recipient of aid to a donor of aid. It's the force that has raised living standards from Brazil to India. And it's the force that has allowed emerging African countries like Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique to defy the odds and make real progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals, even as some of their neighbors - like Cote d'Ivoire - have lagged behind."
2) According to an analysis from BEN FELLER of the Associated Press :
Obama said helping poorer countries prosper is good for the U.S. It's the right thing to do, he said, adding that the United States also needs capable partners to deal with global problems as they arise. It also needs growing foreign economies for its exports. For too long, Obama said, U.S. policy has been defined by the amount of money spent and food and medicines delivered. "But aid alone is not development," he said. "Development is helping nations to actually develop, moving from poverty to prosperity. And we need more than just aid to unleash that change." Obama said the U.S. also is changing its view of the ultimate goal of development. He said that some U.S. aid has saved lives in the short term , such as food aid for millions of starving people around the world , but that it hasn't always improved those societies over the long term. "That's dependence, and it's a cycle we need to break," Obama said. Obama pledged to work with Congress to match U.S. investments to administration priorities and he called on donor countries to honor their commitments. But his strongest plea was for developing countries, urging them to share some of the responsibility. "We want you to prosper and succeed. It's in your interest and it's in our interest," Obama said. "We want to help you realize your aspirations. But there is no substitute for your leadership."
Business and technology incubators in production networks.
Incubators play an important role in fostering the creation and growth of small and medium-size businesses. Their roles range from providing affordable space to providing core business support functions, such as business development, financing, marketing, and legal services. Factors considered important to success include public policy that facilitates the creation of venture capital and provides business infrastructure, private sector partnerships for mentoring and marketing, community involvement, a knowledge base of university and research facilities, and professional networking. Networking helps small and medium-size enterprises access skills, find highly educated labor, and pool business services. The rapidly changing technological and global environment makes networking particularly important in fostering incubation activities.
To break the poverty circle, in which the resource-poor settings, particularly Sub Saharan Africa, are trapped
"Our explanation is that tropical Africa, even the well-governed parts, is stuck in a poverty trap, too poor to achieve robust, high levels of economic growth and, in many places, simply too poor to grow at all. More policy or governance reform, by itself, will not be sufficient to overcome this trap. Specifically, Africa’s extreme poverty leads to low national saving rates, which in turn lead to low or negative economic growth rates. Low domestic saving is not offset by large inflows of private foreign capital, for example foreign direct investment, because Africa’s poor infrastructure and weak human capital discourage such inflows. With very low domestic saving and low rates of market-based foreign capital inflows, there is little in Africa’s current dynamics that promotes an escape from poverty. Something NEW is needed. We argue that what is needed is a "BIG PUSH” in public investments to produce a rapid "step” increase in Africa’s underlying productivity, both rural and urban. The intervention of foreign donors will be critical to achieving this step increase”. SACHS et al ; for the United Nations Millennium Development Project UN MDP). pp 121-122. Available at http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/BPEAEndingAfricasPovertyTrapFINAL.pdf . Accessed August 9, 2010.
The United States Millennium Challenge Corporation (US MCC), the biggest donor in the war against extreme poverty, provided the « BIG PUSH » through massive capital investment to the resource-poor settings, demonstrating the complementarities between the UN MDP and the US MCC. Available at http://www.mcc.gov/
The Biotech tropicana SMARThivTECHS, and Biotech tropicana Corporation demonstrate the feasibility on the ground, of the principles established in the UN MDP and the US MCC. SMARThivTECHS are designed to promote development by alleviating the disease burden, on the resource-poor settings; a major factor that promotes the poverty trap.
Biotech tropicana Corporation demonstrates that poverty may be alleviated, through capital investment to promote the private sector, using principles established in the US MCC.
We agree with expert analysis that, if properly applied, the UN MDP provides the necessary scientific guidance, and the US MCC provides the necessary funds to break that poverty circle. These projects shall not fail.
August 5, 2010
Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap
Africa’s development crisis is unique. Not only is Africa the poorest region in the world, but it was also the only major developing region with negative growth in income per capita during 1980–2000 (table 1). Some African countries grew during the 1990s, but for the most part this growth recovered ground lost during the 1980s. Moreover, Africa’s health conditions are by far the worst on the planet. The AIDS pandemic is wreaking havoc, as is the resurgence of malaria due to rising drug resistance and the lack of effective public health systems. Africa’s population continues to soar, adding ecological stresses to the economic strains. Policy-based development lending to Africa over the past twenty years, known as structural adjustment lending, did not solve the problem. A heavy debt burden is evidenced by the 155 Paris Club restructurings of African countries’ debt between 1980 and 2001, much more than for any other region. In general, Africa remains mired in poverty and debt.
SACHS et al; For The United Nations Millennium Development Project
In March 2002, with a speech to the Inter-American Development Bank and another to the United Nations in Monterrey, Mexico, President George W. BUSH announced a "new way”, of approaching global development, termed the Millennium Challenge Account. According to the Biotech tropicana Systems, the major innovation invented by the BUSH administration is the creation of a "quite rigorous” linkage between incentives (aid) and results on the ground (development gains). The announcement was lauded in the US press as "an audacious attempt by the Bush administration to rewrite the rules of foreign development assistance”. Available at http://www.therandymon.com/papers/incentives-capacity.pdf. Accessed July 15,2010.
Early in January 2004, a bipartisan US Congress passed a law designed to boost the Bush administration "new way” approach in donor aid. The Congress placed the enforcement of its new law into the care of the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation. Available at http://mcc.gov/
Gerald Hyman explained
" Payment is for performance, not promises. Unlike traditional aid, the MCC program rewards poor countries whose governments have made the ’right’ decisions to boost growth and alleviate poverty. No money will be paid either for promises of reform nor for a ’political dialogue’ aimed at reforms”. Available at http://www.kas.de/wf/en/33.18129/ . Accessed July 15, 2010.
President BUSH affirmed:
"Many of the old models of economic development assistance are outdated. Money that is not accompanied by legal and economic reform are oftentimes wasted. In many poor nations, corruption runs deep. Private property is unprotected. Markets are closed. Monetary and fiscal policies are unsustainable. Private contracts are unenforceable. When nations refuse to enact sound policies, progress against poverty is nearly impossible. In these situations, more aid money can actually be counterproductive, because it subsidizes bad policies, delays reform, and crowds out private investment. Today, I call for a new compact for global development, defined by new accountability for both rich and poor nations alike".
George W. BUSH, for the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation.
The Biotech tropicana Systems Biotech tropicana Corporation is aligned with the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation. Applying the principles of entreprise engineering to the US MCC concepts, we engineered our private tropicana Systems, to align with the "new way” global development principles established in the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation. One amusing commentary we often receive is that, because we align with the US MCC principles, we must receive funding from the US MCA packages of countries where we operate. Where this fact can be true. It must not be true. US MCA packages are country specific. Even where encompassing country level development lines, like the US MCC our programs are designed based on global development principles, not country development ones. These engineered principles are the core guiding principles of Biotech Corporation; owned and operated by Aboubakar YARI & Venus YARI.
Technology development for the developing world : prospecting or basic research ?
The ability of developing countries to use existing technologies depends largely on their ability to successfully conduct technology prospecting. Technology prospecting entails the searching for, identifying, adapting, and diffusing imported technology. It uses technologies that are readily available, adapting them to the local economy. This process entails both research and enterprise development. It usually involves creating institutions designed to undertake global searches for technology and find ways of adapting them to local and international markets. One of the best examples of successful technology prospecting is the Fundación Chile, established in 1974 by engineer Raúl Sáez, then Minister of Economic Coordination. Available at http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/tf_science.htm ,in Innovation: applying knowledge in development, page 126 (further tech report)
Basic and applied knowledge is necessary to solve the complex issues that affect poor people. (Tech report, P 123).
However, basic research is expensive, and most developing countries cannot afford it. Fortunately for the developing world, good wills such as the Bill and Milenda Gates Foundation are paying for, and pushing deeply into the unexplored areas of basic requirements of "successful” technology development for the developing world. Available at Available at http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/tf_science.htm ,in Innovation: applying knowledge in development, Box 8.2, page 124.
When combined with prospecting research in technology development for the developing world, pioneered by the Biotech tropicana Systems, the basic research in technology development for the developing world, pioneered by the Bill and Milenda Gates Foundation, set the ground for achieving the technology needs of the developing world, in the near future.
It all depends on how the prospecting and basic research efforts are balanced, to promote the achievements of both needs in short and long terms.
Our fear is that, the consequences of failing to achieve the delicate balance between prospecting, and basic research, can be catastrophic, for the developing world.
Details available in Technology For The Developing World: An Approach Perspective,( Aboubakar YARI & Venus YARI), under development in the Biotech tropicana Systems.
June 21, 2010
Development as learning
" economic improvement is largely a result of the application of knowledge in productive activities and the associated adjustments in social institutions (Rosenberg and Birdzell 1986; Mokyr 2002). It uses an innovation systems approach that attributes economic growth to interactive learning involving government, industry, academia, and civil society (Edquist 1997). It focuses on the importance of learning or continuous improvement in the knowledge base and institutional arrangements for development (Conceição and Heitor 2002). Technological innovation is therefore not simply a matter of installing devices, but of transforming society and its value systems (Sagasti 2004)" . In innovation: Applying Knowledge In Development.
Available
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/Science-complete.pdf. Accessed June 21, 2010
June 16, 2010
The transition from the "old way" funding-directed to the "new way" knowledge-directed development approaches: a challenge to the developing world leadership, and their "old way" partisan partners.
Calestous Juma, at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and coordinator of the United Nations, Science, Technology, and innovation Task Force, discussed in part:
" A nation’s ability to solve problems and initiate and sustain economic growth depends partly on its capabilities in science, technology, and innovation.1 Science and technology are linked to economic growth; scientific and technical capabilities determine the ability to provide clean water, good health care, adequate infrastructure, and safe food. Development trends around the world need to be reviewed to evaluate the role that science, technology, and innovation play in economic transformation in particular and sustainable development in general
On Science, technology, and engineering education for the resource-poor settings
Developing countries need to create indigenous capacity by training scientists, technologists, and engineers in relevant fields. Such a strategy would help address local concerns (health, food security, infrastructure, and manufacturing).
With the notable exception of some East Asian countries, most developing countries have given education in science and technology low priority. Many developing countries view science and technology as luxuries that are irrelevant to their immediate needs. Another misconception is that technology destroys jobs. Technology has merely changed employment patterns, reducing the number of jobs in production of goods relative to services, increasing the relative importance of high-skill occupations within sectors, and broadening skills within occupations.
On April 29, 2010, the Publication of the Biotech tropicana "Mobile Life Box" was released in the Journal of Generic Medicine.
The "Mobile Life Box" materializes two basic visions, the "creativity" concept proposed by the USA Panel of the International AIDS Society (AIS-USA), and the "political will" concept manifested by the United States Congress, and the General Assembly of the United Nations, in the US MCC "new way" SMARTaid approach, and the UN MDG.
The developing world is as "simple" as "complexe", its subtle complexity remains the proprietary domain of the developing world experts.
Without "creativity", we can't make it, it doesn't matter how much basic science we put in;the "old way" received tons of technical support without producing results.
Without "political will" we can't make it, it doesn't matter how much money, we put in.
We agree with IAS-USA stating " ‘With creativity and political will, the progress and individualized approach to antiretroviral therapy evident in the developed world can be adapted to the public health approach in the developing world, where 90 per cent of the world's HIV-infected population lives" Available at http://www.citeulike.org/article/7112766. Accessed May 5, 2010.
February 7, 2010
Acknowledgments
On funding technology innovations in the resource poor settings We wish to thank these compassionate capitalists who help shape the funding strategies to promote technology innovation in support of development of the resource poor settings:
·George Atkinson (Science and Technology Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State) for convening over a period of six months an informal roundtable on funding science, technology, and development for the United Nations Millennium Development Project. The other members of the roundtable whose contributions helpedshape the thinking regarding financial support for technological innovation include Mamphela Ramphele, Robert Watson, and Michael Crawford (World Bank, Washington,D.C.); Bruce Alberts (U.S. National Academies, Washington, D.C.), and Marta Cehelsky (Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.).
Guided by the philosophy that "All Lives Have Equal Value”, the founder of the Bill and Milanda Gates foundation believes that "poor farmers are not the problem. They are the solution”. The founder of Biotech tropicana Corporation agree, and go beyond to believe that the " resource poor communities of the developing world, are not the problem. They are the solution toward self-sustainability in the developing world, and the solution toward helping developing countries free themselves fromchronic dependency on international aid””.
The needs for a transformative change in developing world universities
Investment in science and technology education needs to increase, and the role of universities needs to change
Universities can contribute to development in several ways. They can undertake entrepreneurial activities that aim to improve regional or national economic and social performance. They can get involved with their communities, gaining direct knowledge about social needs, some of which could be addressed through R&Dactivities. They can conduct industrial R&D; create spin-off firms; participate in capital formation projects, such as technology parks and business incubator facilities; introduce entrepreneurial training and internships into their curricula; and encourage students to take research from the university to firms. Universities need to be transformed to play these roles. Eventually, new institutions need to be created that focus on business incubation and community development. Reshaping universities to contribute to development will require adjustments in curricula, changes in schemes of service, modifications in pedagogy, shifts in the location of universities, and the creation of a wider institutional ecology that includes other parts of the development process. National development plans will need to incorporate new links between universities, industry, and government. These changes are likely to have an impact on the entire national innovation system, including firms, R&D institutes, and government organizations.
Economic change is largely a process by which knowledge is transformed into goods and services.
Creating links between knowledge generation and enterprise development is one of the greatest challenges facing developing countries.
Task force on innovation, science and technology
For the United nations Millennium development Project
Tip of the day : Reverse engineering of e-mail spams.
From: Biotech tropicana, Inc
To: Small technology-oriented business developers for the developing world.
We propose a strategy to harness e-mail spams for small business marketing strategy innovations. Spams are in most case uninvited marketing e-mails to advertize products. Big businesses in the developed world settings such as the United States spend millions of dollars every year to protect their computer systems from spams, and reversely to collect consumer opinions through surveys, for the purpose to develop their business strategies. As part of our expansion plan to all continents by 2015, we reversely develop an e-mail spam collections system, and survey participation system to harness data in developing our business strategies. Technology market in the resource-poor settings are often small and unstructured. However, there are spots of structured markets that may be identified using developing world "adapted” strategies. With the event of the internet and the globalization of the world e-business, resource-poor settings are initiating e-mail marketing through spams. We design a 20 e-mail addresses (5 e-mails hosted in each continent) worldwide, to harness spams. By systematically re-organizing the data in these spams, business patterns in these developing world settings emerge. Through the analysis of these patterns, we are locating spots of structured markets in these settings. We also participate in opinion surveys organized by big companies in the developed world settings. Systematic reorganization and analysis of the type of questions in these surveys, show business interest of theses big companies. The information collected from the survey question analysis may be useful for small companies looking for partnerships and collaborations with big companies. In addition many of these developed world business giants will pay you a few bucks for your interest in their work. We are also developing biotechnology specific markets identification strategies, for the developing world. We keep them secret for competition purpose. However, we may release some of these data under special circumstances, when humanism overrides profit, consistent with our compassionate capitalism philosophy. Biotech tropicana, Inc United States Headquater is projecting the establishment of physical offices on all continents by 2015. We predict that in five years, from 2010 to 2015, the spams will provide us enough data, to help shape our business strategies on a planetary scale. As part of our small private business promotion activities in the resource-poor settings, we propose our reversed spam engineering to technology oriented small business developers, for the developing world.
January 5, 2010
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"No employee or member of any management section of Biotech tropicana, Inc SHALL NOT NEGOTIATE with terrorists, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE".
