{"id":1981,"date":"2011-02-11T15:18:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/altlep.wordpress.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2011-02-11T15:18:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T15:18:58","slug":"some-more-provocations-on-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2011\/02\/11\/some-more-provocations-on-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Some More Provocations on Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Poverty is not about scarcity \u2013 it is not that there is not enough \u2013 but that it is not shared<\/li>\n<li>The challenge is to give more people the power that they need to play a positive and powerful role in markets; This means accessible and relevant processes to develop individual capabilities and power<\/li>\n<li>Development is a measure of the extent to which individuals have the capabilities to live the life that they choose. \u00a0It has little to do with standard economic measures such as GDP.<\/li>\n<li>Helping people to recognise choices and increase the breadth of choices\u00a0available\u00a0to them should be a key objective of development.<\/li>\n<li>Developing the capability and power of individuals provides a key to both development and freedom<\/li>\n<li>Development must be relevant to lives, contexts, and aspirations<\/li>\n<li>Development is about more than the alleviation of problems \u2013 stamping out anti social behaviour, teenage pregnancies, poor housing and so on.<\/li>\n<li>It is about helping people to become effective architects in shaping their own lives<\/li>\n<li>We need practices that value individual identity; avoid lumping people into \u201ccommunities\u201d they may not want to be part of, and promote a person\u2019s freedom to make her own choices. \u00a0Promoting identification with \u2018community\u2019 risks segregation and violence between communities<\/li>\n<li>Society must take a serious interest in the overall capabilities that someone has to lead the sort of life they want to lead, and\u00a0organise\u00a0itself to support the development and practice of those capabilities<\/li>\n<li>We should primarily develop an emphasis on individuals as members of the human race rather than as members of ethnic groups, religions or other \u2018communities\u2019. \u00a0Humanity matters.<\/li>\n<li>We need to make the\u00a0delivery\u00a0of public education, more equitable, more efficient and more accessible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If we took this stuff seriously what kind of enterprise development activities would a LEP commission?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Olympic Gold &#8211; 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Why I don&#8217;t subscribe blindly to the school of positive thinking<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Bonsai People in a Bonsai Culture?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/18\/bonsai-people-in-a-bonsai-culture\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bonsai People in a Bonsai Culture?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poverty is not about scarcity \u2013 it is not that there is not enough \u2013 but that it is not shared The challenge is to give more people the power that they need to play a positive and powerful role in markets; This means accessible and relevant processes to develop individual capabilities and power Development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[66,73,120,149],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-enterprise","tag-enterprise-2","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-lep","tag-person-centred","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}