With so much resources and manpower in a number of African countries, millions of people are still sadly trapped in poverty and hunger. What is required of those countries to change into sustainable developed countries?
Dear Mustafa Abbas Mustafa
I share your concern. In my eyes, in order for African countries sustainably developed in the near future, three things would be vital.
1. Putting more investment in science and technology which enables them to exploit their amble resources in a sustainable way. Particular emphasis should be on agricultural sectors.
2. Strong economic integration between and among neighboring countries.
3. Related to the second point, allowing free movement of labor, capital, goods, and services between and among different countries.
The problem of developing countries is a matter of political willingness, as you said Dear Mustafa , With so much resources and manpower in a number of African countries
I totally agree with Aijaz Panhwar on the importance of education but the responsibility of the authorities goes beyond providing good education to the population. They also have to enable educated citizens to have access to adequate jobs where they can use their skills and knowledge so that they don't have the need to migrate to more developed nations. Africa needs education without brain-drain.
Dear Muawya Ahmed Hussein and Aijaz Panhwar and Fikrineh Negash and Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy
Thanks very much for your valuable comments. So can we list them as follows (not in any particular order) :
1. Political willingness
2. Education
2. Policies
3. Science and Technology
4. Jobs (to stop brain drain)
5. Investment into vital areas such as the agricultural sector
Deal All,
Thanks again ! Is it possible to do a root cause analysis and pint point the exact problems within the societies which lead to their development. Do we need ore democracy? Is the problem about corruption and lobbies? Are the people indifferent?
Thanks Ayuba Ali ! What do you think is the main cause for spread of corruption in developing countries?
The main cause is common interest of polititions and the week accountability because of lack of political will.
By encouragement of scientific, culture ties, implementing plain field economical investments, restoring peace where is necessary, donating medical equipment and drugs, etc. - the list of assisting developing countries from the side of developed countries is endless.
Corruption started gradually from a poorly perceived democracy by the political class called interest which has eaten deeply in African blood stream causing poverty, hunger, starvation and what have you which in turn lead to a normal adage of if you can't beat them you join them. This to bad for African in 21st century
Mustafa Abbas Mustafa
Dear Researcher,
This is a wonderful topic of discussion.
I don't think there is one way to convert the developing nations into developed nations. Having said that, I should also say that I really like the contributions of Aijaz Panhwar , Remi Chukwudi Okeke and Ayuba Ali .
In my life, I have traveled across many nations, some of which are developed and some of which are developing. One striking difference that I have observed in the two sets of nations is that developed nations believe that they are developed and developing nations believe that they are developing. I have, almost in every developing nation, seen that they believe so strongly that they are a developing nation ... in fact, in most cases that belief becomes a hindrance to their development.
To sum up, I would say that the leadership in developing nations must make their plan visible and understandable to the common people, to make their country developed. That would probably help them (the common people) believe that and who doesn't know that our beliefs most of the time become our realities.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
dear all.
the leaders of these countries must be aware; for that they must be elected democratically. The functioning of these countries is democratic. Socio-economic parameters such as:
_ training and research;
_ infrastructure development;
_the development of cooperation with friendly countries;
_... etc.
there are a lot of successful models from young countries. My best regards.
Dear Professor
There are many ways to help developing countries. First of all, they should focus on quality education and technology and set up more vocational training centers. They can train up their youth people both males and females on Digital marketing such as Freelancing. Moreover, they need to try to explore their natural resources as early as possible. They should also focus on ethics and morality with quality education. I think a nation can not sustain if they do not have morality with quality education and technology. In addition, they should focus on R&D. Finally the political parties should be free from corruption and ensure political stability.
Before helping countries; these countries must first help themselves: decrease in corruption for example
In those countries, very often corruption plays a keyrole to explain why they remain trapped in poverty, hunger, diseases... Corruption allows few persons in each sector to remain dominant. The public decisions, instead of being taken for the benefit of the population, serve the very few influent persons who can literally buy the officials' consciences. The officials set up a reward/punishment and denunciation system to maintain their power. Some of the democratic countries have interest to deal with this kind of officials who are more convenient than officials who defend their populations. An official desiring only to become richer is far cheaper because more quickly satisfied than an official who defends the interests of a whole population. This also may explain how some execrable dictatorships have been able to remain in power and continue to take bad decisions in all fields at all levels. Even international aid (or development project, or call it as you like) is to a large extent diverted from its initial objectives and eventually is useful to enrich some local and foreign persons, sometimes with a null benefit to the population, be it direct or indirect. Underdevelopment is not a question of resources, this seems obvious to me. It is a question of governance and of bad international interference.
Dear Rim Lahmandi-Ayed , I find your perception of the effects of corruption on development very accurate. Corruption provokes the bad use of scarce resources. Most likely corruption is present in all countries but with very different effects. Some societies have succeeded in mitigating perverse effects. It is possible to learn from them. Factors that can really help are education for all, free media, freedom of speech, a fair legal system, and transparency.
Dear Rim Lahmandi-Ayed
You are completely right. Corruption is the source of their under development. How much do we have corrupted president ....
Best regards
Dear, Mustafa Abbas Mustafa
In the case of the South American countries, I can suggest that the characteristics of the education system should be improved, at all levels. This process will guarantee a qualified society that can exploit the vast natural resources and generate goods and services that guarantee the development of the country. On the other hand, political decisions must focus on the common good and be more truly combative with corruption.
Cordially
education and training are an effective weapon in the fight against underdevelopment
Dear Mustafa Abbas Mustafa There is a need to redirect public investments and offer long-term responses that support sustainable initiates, for example, renewable energy and infrastructure, while also funding: new research and development, reforestation, coral-reef restoration, regenerative agriculture, sustainable fisheries, and so forth. The pursuing of the sustainable post-pandemic future can be built on the current international agreements for reducing emissions and increasing finance for sustainable development.
In this context, the 17 SDGs represent a comprehensive global agenda that engage all levels of governance in the recovering efforts to change our social paradigms, as they cut across sectoral borders to avoid negative trade-offs and create positive synergies between multiple actors and stakeholders.
developing countries must make cooperation with powerful friendly countries
Dear @Mustafa Abbas Mustafa Please browse the link given below; you will find a detailed analysis, and the pragmatic ways how a developing nation can be transformed into a developed one:
https://www.quora.com/How-do-developing-countries-become-developed
Thanks!
Education is certainly one of the pillars for development. However, it also has to be planned strategically and be adapted to the country's current and foreseeable needs. If education is insufficient the country will suffer from this. But educational infrastructure is also a scarce and expensive resource. A minimum of education for the majority of the population should be achieved. Beyond that particular attention has to be paid also to vocational training preparing young people to have the skills required for all trades. Only the best students should have access to good quality university education based on merit and not on wealth or social position. If too many students graduate from university society may not be able to grant them the kind of job they expect and they may become frustrated and possibly tempted to emigrate, often to developed nations, with the subsequent loss of human capital for the country. With very limited resources society really needs to optimize its use.
it is clear that the first point to attack is education. a good education trains future generations.
Dear Mustafa Abdas,
This is a very very pertinent discussion.
I find only one way to come out of this bad situation . This is trying to use the own natural resources and man power by the countries own manner.
Need development of need based education system and gradually development of Research institutions and Universities for the development and proper distribution of wealth.
When needed, Discussion and related helps can be taken from the Developed countries.
Because, as a whole , we need the development of mankind globally.
Thanks
N Das
I think you have to work with countries that buy your raw material from you at a good price.
Dear Nityananda Das
Yes why not. it is a way of seeing. the exact solution is not known? Best regards
Dear A Ketab ,
I think developping own cultivation strategies and industrial development are the main things and the proper distribution of wealth.
This needs proper framework of education system . This can be done with the help of developed countries.
Best Wishes
N Das
Dear A Kettab,
Exactly. Corruption is main point against development.
But , removing corruption needs developing the Ethical values .
This is very tough and I think , can be achieved by proper education system .
Thanks
N Das
Dear Nityananda Das
I agree with you.
suppression of corruption + education + ..? = sustainable development
I think that the World superpowers and the technologies giants must be stopped from dirty and hostile/antagonistic policy against the other nations of the world. They ought to involve and support the others in the scientific and technological progresses.
Dear Mustafa Abbas Mustafa
Simply for me, the solution is the research. Doing more valuable research will help your university which will help your country.
The UN sustainable development goals are the framework within which organisations, like the European Training Foundation, that support developing and transition countries in offering a decent life to their citizens, operate. The 17 goals adopted in 2015 set detailed targets for key aspects of human, social and economic development in a perspective of environmental and social sustainability. As we know from our own history in the developed world, economic expansion can have huge social and environmental costs. If we want to bring the whole world to the same level of development, it is imperative that we find ways of achieving this in a sustainable way. Economic growth needs to create value for citizens and society at large, in terms of decent living and working conditions, freedom from want and insecurity, opportunity to realise their potential and play an active part in society. And as the world gets richer, we cannot afford to undermine the very ground we all stand on. The health of the planet is a global concern for all of us everywhere. https://impakter.com/skills-for-the-future-what-developing-countries-can-do-today-to-benefit-tomorrow/
Preparing for an unpredictable future. Our efforts to support countries in achieving these goals, takes place against the background of a world in rapid mutation. Technological change, economic and financial globalisation, demographic imbalances and migration create a volatile environment in which countries seek to better the lives of their citizens. Rapid, unpredictable and disruptive change brings dangers, but also creates opportunities for those who are prepared to seize them.
Preparing people for an unpredictable future, providing them with the skills they will need to adapt to change and be successful in the fast moving labour markets of tomorrow was the focus of the European Training Foundation’s recent conference Skills for the Future: Managing Transition held in Turin on 21-22 November 2018. The focus was not so much on speculating about what the future holds for the countries in which the European Training Foundation works, but on looking at what countries can do now to make their education, training and labour market systems flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of tomorrow. https://impakter.com/skills-for-the-future-what-developing-countries-can-do-today-to-benefit-tomorrow/
Quality education is key to sustainable growth. As the European Union Agency that helps transition and developing countries make the most of their human capital through the reform of education, training and labour market systems, the European Training Foundation is principally concerned with two of the Sustainable development goals: ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all (SDG 4); and promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (SDG 8).
The countries where the ETF works in the wider neighbourhood of the European Union[1] present a wide range of situations from OECD member countries like Israel and Turkey to countries at the lower end of the middle-income range like Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The situation of the ETF’s partner countries in relation to the ongoing challenges of globalization and technological change is described in our recent publication Getting Ready for the Future.
Most countries are relatively well-integrated with the world economy, with high ratios of exports to GDP and significant flows of foreign direct investment and remittances from their large diaspora populations. Most have become offshoring destinations for global value chains, mostly headquartered in Europe, with important manufacturing and increasingly service sectors serving international markets. Absolute poverty is not a major challenge in the ETF’s partner countries, most countries struggle to ensure sustained economic growth and full and productive employment, with low activity rates and high unemployment, especially among young people, and high rates of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs).
To a large extent, this is due to slow economic growth and weak job creation, as well as large informal sectors. But an important contributing factor is the mismatch between the competences young people acquire in the formal education and training system, and the real needs of the labour market. This is a particularly urgent problem in countries with large and growing youth populations. The ETF has been working on this issue for many years on three fronts. https://impakter.com/skills-for-the-future-what-developing-countries-can-do-today-to-benefit-tomorrow/
The developed countries can provide funds to open new schools and polytechnic institutions. These will not only increase the literacy rate, but will also provide vocational education. ... This will promote help poor people to gain higher education. Finally, rich nations should help to improve the economy of poor countries. https://www.ieltsbuddy.com/task-2-developed-countries-helping-developing-countries.html
Developing countries (Africans) do not need the help (finance)of the developed world for better education. Infact they should stop sending aids, because they (Africans)have all they need. The most important thing is leadership: the right set of people.
For the development of a country, the main area where we have to strengthen, is education. Education is the backbone of a nation. So, without educational development we can not develop the country. Therefore, I think that we have to try to improve the education system of the developing countries by giving financial support, to improve their course curriculum. By this way I hope that they will be able to develop in all areas like education, research, planning, communications etc.
Dear Ghusoon Natiq Abdul Hameed,
Tganks for your recommendations. Honesty is the best way to gain everything.
international organizations; each in its own specialty must help developing countries.
Let just go back to the drawing board from Independence to enculcate the ideas of our founding fathers, it will go a long way to help African in 21 century with reasonable share of the continent highly equipped in academic knowledge, technical skills and various trade that can help convert these blessed resources to what is obtainable globally for development and sustainability.
The United Nations (UN) must pay heed on their educations and health issues.
Dear ABDUL Aziz , Md. Abdur Razzak Choudhury , Ayuba Ali , Ahmed Kettab , M. D.H. Prodhan , Remi Chukwudi Okeke , Chinaza Godswill Awuchi , A K Shyam , Adasa Nkrumah Kofi Frimpong , Hamid Reza Farhang ,
Thanks so much for your useful comments. I do applogize as I was ill for the last 3 weeks.
Developing countries need to develop capacity in spearheading their own development based on local needs and resources. Instead of depending on aid from foreign developed nations and organisations, developing countries need to take charge of their own development initiatives.
Mustafa Abbas Mustafa
Hello, Professor.
I participated in this thread on 19 October, 2020. Just now saw that you were not well for the last three weeks. Hope you are fine now. Take care of yourself and whenever you feel comfortable, please give us some more great topics of discussion just like this one.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
Mustafa Abbas Mustafa Dear colleague. I hope you are recovering well from your illness. Thank you for bringing up this topic for discussion and reflection. Sharing views and ideas is one of the benefits. Development is a slow process. It will not happen overnight. It is a marathon and not a sprint. Once it gets started, if there is determination, partial goals will be achieved that will encourage citizens to keep on improving. Developed nations should be there to help, not to exploit.
هذه مسؤولية الحكومات عليها ان تهتم بالصحة والتعليم وتخطط لوظائف مستقبلية تفيد مخرجات التعليم ولاتدع العقول الذكية المنتجة تهاجر وتفيد من امكاناتها
Dear Mustafa Abbas Mustafa,
Thank you for your recommendations. May Allah recover you soon.
Thanks Anamitra Roy , Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy , Amani Harith and M. D.H. Prodhan
It is a very real challenge for developing countries. They face a combination of challenges such as poverty, corruption, bureaucracy, dictatorship, brain drain and lack of knowhow. Some say that the key to success is democratic governments. However, China is rapidly growing in the absence of democracy. The interference of foreign countries in domestic politics is also a key challenge. The question of where do we start still remains. Improving education and providing jobs is the work of governments and if they are corrupt then it is quite useless. Unstable economies can not attract investment which is crucial for small and big infrastructure projects. Seeing what is happening in the USA and the exploitation of Trump of an established democratic system brings both sorrow and despair for people in developing counties looking for a role model.
I agree with Amani Harith that governments have to pay attention to health and education but they also have to make sure that adequate infrastructure is in place. In today's world, no matter where one lives adequate access to the internet and other ICTs is essential for education, health, and business. Without these technologies, progress will slow down.
I think lack of planning and corruption are the major causes if this bad situation
Dear Aseel M.H. Hatif, They certainly are among the major man-made causes but they are not the only ones. We have to consider also the unequal distribution of wealth, lack of opportunities, poor education, and too many regulations that hinder entrepreneurial activities. Excessive planning on the side of the government can also be detrimental to development as we have seen in many notorious cases. A fair fiscal system can be very beneficial if it helps with the redistribution of wealth and provides resources for necessary public spending (education, healthcare, and infrastructure, among others)
Totally agree with your opinion but I think that's unequal distribution of wealth, lack of opportunities and poor education, is resulted from corruption. But I have another opinion about planning ... I think it's is better to have a better vision for the future than taking the issues randomly... With my sincere appreciation for your opinion
Dear Mustafa Abbas Mustafa,
For developing countries, investment in new technologies and the development of large-scale infrastructure investment projects are key issues.
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
To help the developing countries inorder to the development of skilled manpower in different sector.
In South America, the education system must be redesigned, universities updated. Increase technological and industrial investment. In addition, there must be a political and social interest in having a developed nation. In other words, we have to make a lot of changes.
In my opinion, consistent investment in human capital development, provision of basic social infrastructure, including good road networks, affordable mass housing, clean water, railways, electricity, subsidised healthcare, and a host of others by relevant agencies can help Africa to gradual attain their full potentials, overtime. In addition, strigent policies on corruption should be implemented by relevant authorities to discourage people trusted with public funds from taking advantages of such opportunities to cause crisis on their developing economies.
To increase the technical support in different areas of science and technology.
Cooperation with other developing countries in the same region and the creation of a robust common market can be a very important step that will lead to cooperation in other areas such as education and technology development, and for the citizens, the perception could be that progress can be achieved. A larger market can lead to specialization, economies of scale, and bigger, more efficient companies.
Dear Mustafa Abbas Mustafa First we have to classify developing nations, and map the problems developing nations are facing today. There are a number of technologically advance developing countries which do not call for any help. However, majority of developing nations are lagging in the process of development. For these, there may be a few common problems which need to be addressed with the help from developed countries. There may be political problems which will have to be addressed by themselves. You can mine many useful opinions of distinguished members in a similar discussion going on the below mentioned thread:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_problems_developing_countries_facing_today_and_how_can_these_countries_be_transformed_sustainably_into_developed_ones_by_2050
Thanks!