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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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• 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?

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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

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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?

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• 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

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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?

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• 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.

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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. .

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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.

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‘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

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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

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Clinical Economics

The Jeffrey Sachs Ruhiira Partnership

Millennium Villages projects

‘Challenge to pessimists and sceptics.’ Guardian

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

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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

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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

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• Variable geometry for technical support

North-southSouth-southSouth-north

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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

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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.

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Areas for new professional partnershipsClimate changeDisaster managementFreshwaterLand useTourismBiodiversityTechnology transferEconomics for development & green accounting

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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


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