LETTERS - Development-centred trade
Development-centred tradeBy Kabumbu Isaac
Tuesday March 27, 2007 [02:00]
Economics is said to be the study of how society organises its money, trade and industry. At the same time, economics teaches people to find fiscal solutions, within scanty resources, to problems. The principle at play is about minimising expenditure and maximising income; spending less and gaining more.
With this background usually comes a mentality that one finds it difficult to resist inordinate and great love of money and desirous of that of others. In this trap falls a merchant who no longer seeks the development and good of one’s own country, but individual unsatisfactory accumulation of wealth.
Consequently, economics is understood only as the increase of personal wealth rather than the administration of countries and resources to swell up economic reservoirs of society as a whole.
On the international or national level some leaders have fallen prey to selfish capitalism.
The weak and innocent people are tossed on the sharp-edges of unjust economic objectives aimed at capitalistic increase of wealth without regard to principles of solidarity, subsidiarity and the common good. It then becomes easier to trade on the market and compromise the inexhaustible value of inherent human rights and dignity.
Human rights suffer a great deal and are better eliminated together with their subject who is merely reduced to a means to and end. In the process trade-centred development is claimed at the expense of development-centred trade.
The latter is a policy shift to place trade, production and employment at the core of reducing poverty and serving humanity. This development-driven approach to trade is needed for it allows for trade and social justice that lies in solidarity.
Without this shift in policy, our society is unlikely to progress especially in this 21st century, where world economic system is advantaging the West.
http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=24375
Watch Katumbi
By Chris
Tuesday March 27, 2007 [02:00]
I would like to congratulate Moses Katumbi for his intelligence. Just a few weeks ago, he said he was going to turn Katanga Province into a small South Africa. Very few people understood what he meant. This man has foresight and he knows what he is talking about. He may be a crook, as it has been alleged, but personally I admire him. Let our politicians learn a lesson from this.
One fact is clear: It only takes one person in power to grasp the vision to turn around an ailing economy.
Wake up Zambia! Katumbi has just been governor for a few months and he has been able to see the irregularities surrounding the copper business and the overloaded trucks!
Watch Moses Katumbi in the next one year.
http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=24372
Western clandestine services
By Kanyanta Kapwepwe, Lusaka
Tuesday March 27, 2007 [02:00]
The comments by our two former heads of state on Zimbabwe were a true example of what stance brave leaders should take. I also wish to advise all those against the statements that we need to be analytical in the way we comment over this issue if we are to understand the real problem. Let us not just call an egg "an oval shaped shell". There is more to it than what you see.
The difference is not between Mugabe and Tsivangirai, and what can be done to Zimbabwe can also be done to any African country in one way or another.
Let us be alert of the Western clandestine services. They use you to fight your own brothers and before you realise it they will have gotten what they wanted. Moreover, the pernicious economic sanctions are meant to create an evil face on the rulling government.
Labels: DEVELOPMENT, LETTERS, Moses Katumbi, ZIMBABWE
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