"... There are many unused resources are not tradable, not receive investment and that do not generate work. And all this because of the taboo of ideologies overcome by laziness, indolence or the law of the Dog in the Manger, which reads: "If I do, that does not do anyone '." Alan García Pérez, President of Peru
Article of President Alan Garcia, published in El Comercio on 28 October ("The dog in the manger syndrome"), lit has attracted comments for and against. Its chief merit is that it helps to promote discussion, virtually absent in recent years on economic development models. In what follows, highlighting some of the statements, which seem important given the status of the perpetrator.
Peru is a beggar sitting on a gold bench
President Garcia supports the metaphor implicitly Raimondi wrongly attributed: that Peru is a beggar sitting on a bench of gold. The bank gold becomes the sum of the many, varied and important natural resources that the country has: the woods of the Amazon, land, mineral resources, gas, oil, sea. The beggar, who serves as "dog in the manger" - represents a heterogeneous compound, in the relationship presidential smallholders, rural communities, populations native fishermen, workers demanding labor rights and citizens who still subscribe to "outdated ideology" (the "anti-capitalist ', states), in short, idle, indolent and indigent.
is difficult to say how many people are included in this amazing relationship, but certainly far surpasses the number of Peruvians who voted for President García. To take advantage of the gold-presidential running-reasoning is that ousting the beggar. How? Changing the rules of the game to sit on the bank of gold to large investors. If they are transnational, rather, they are bringing the technology.
charge is so full sense bills like the one that grants special powers to recognize and ignore Cofopri ownership rights over the land for four years, and as the public needs to declare the particular interests of twenty mining companies, with In order to circumvent the property rights enshrined in the Constitution, which also encourage community members, indigenous peoples and other citizens represented by the beggar in the metaphor.
The source of wealth
presidential The second claim is that the wealth of Peru lies mainly in natural resources and not primarily in the processing capacity of its citizens. The world has come to the conclusion long ago that knowledge is the real creator of wealth and human capital the most important factor, and on them rests competitiveness. So we speak today of the "knowledge society." The president goes back centuries ago to consider that the inert material extracted with little added value is the true wealth. Not surprisingly, then, the government reduced its value-and just to say, also the previous governments, give to education, primary shaper of human capital. We know that education in Peru, especially the public, is one of the worst in the world. Under these conditions, Peru can not be competitive, as much is simply a collector of rent. In contrast, the accumulated knowledge of farmers and native peoples on the complex realities in which they live and survive, are ignored and even despised by the official world.
LRA is not against the great investment. Moreover, considering that in many cases is essential for the proper exploitation of natural resources, including minerals, oil and gas. But at the same time, not to confuse the media, ie the sustainable improvement of quality of life of the whole population (in order), with different types of investment (the media). As argued in the editorial of LRA 87, the month of September, with regard to mining ("Mining" is development? "):" There is [...] a mechanical connection between having and exploiting natural resources, be they miners or others, and bring about development "," we need to redefine the role that [ mining activities] should be local and regional development [...], not in pursuance of a "social responsibility" of the enterprise-term, usually a euphemism for "public relations" and that depends entirely on the willingness of the company - but as an essential function of this economic activity. This function should be explicit in the contracts. "
What is sustainable modern
The third assertion follows from the presidential confusion between what is cutting edge technology, which supposedly brings large foreign investment, and the modern way of exploiting natural resources properly. Much of the current technology of mining and oil companies still corresponds to a paradigm of the industrial revolution two hundred years ago, in which the relationship with nature is based on "extracted without replenishing." It is noted today that the cumulative impact of this paradigm are terrible: the disappearance of biological species, water pollution and soil warming progressive in the world. Today, modern requires the opposite: the quest for development that ensures the sustainability of resources.
The anticapitalist This sustainability is at stake the future of humanity, as has just confirmed on 17 November in Valencia, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at its plenary XXVII . The UN Secretary General, in her closing remarks, stressed that climate change will affect more to developing countries. "The deglaciation trigger flooding and lead to reduced water availability in South Asia and South America '. And "if the IPCC projections reveal severe true, much of the Amazon will become plains without tree vegetation," he warns.
These should be central concerns of Peru and its president. But Garcia says there is a current anti-capitalist transecular skin changes according to the times: Communists in the nineteenth century (it is assumed that ruled in the twentieth century!), Protectionism in the twentieth century (Britain, USA and other capitalist countries were characterized as protectionist!) and environmentalists in the XXI century (when the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded for their environmental merits, the IPCC and Al Gore, is difficult to define the anti-capitalist!).
Big is beautiful: the farm, new development paradigm
According to President Garcia, the community lands are "idle land because the owner has no training or financial resources, so your property is apparent. That same land, sold in large lots, bring technology ...». The President should clarify whether the rights of property of those who "have no training or economic resources" (which he described as "apparent") are of lower status than the ownership of large investors who bring technology. That is, in essence, a living of the two bills mentioned above paragraphs.
The idea of \u200b\u200b"selling the land in large lots, which brings technology" as a solution to the enhancement of natural resources, the President extends to mining, petroleum, fishing and logging. His conception of economic organization is ultimately that of a proliferation of modern farms, large estates (for agriculture, mining, fisheries, timber exploitation and gas), owned by large investors, for a hand, and thousands of peasants, natives and fishermen, workers converted (probably underpaid and mistreated, given the limited capacity and / or willingness of government to improve labor relations). Nothing more contradictory to the construction of an equitable, environmentally sustainable, with many actors, institutions strong, dynamic local markets and an active state and at the same time, decentralized.
Article of President Alan Garcia, published in El Comercio on 28 October ("The dog in the manger syndrome"), lit has attracted comments for and against. Its chief merit is that it helps to promote discussion, virtually absent in recent years on economic development models. In what follows, highlighting some of the statements, which seem important given the status of the perpetrator.
Peru is a beggar sitting on a gold bench
President Garcia supports the metaphor implicitly Raimondi wrongly attributed: that Peru is a beggar sitting on a bench of gold. The bank gold becomes the sum of the many, varied and important natural resources that the country has: the woods of the Amazon, land, mineral resources, gas, oil, sea. The beggar, who serves as "dog in the manger" - represents a heterogeneous compound, in the relationship presidential smallholders, rural communities, populations native fishermen, workers demanding labor rights and citizens who still subscribe to "outdated ideology" (the "anti-capitalist ', states), in short, idle, indolent and indigent.
is difficult to say how many people are included in this amazing relationship, but certainly far surpasses the number of Peruvians who voted for President García. To take advantage of the gold-presidential running-reasoning is that ousting the beggar. How? Changing the rules of the game to sit on the bank of gold to large investors. If they are transnational, rather, they are bringing the technology.
charge is so full sense bills like the one that grants special powers to recognize and ignore Cofopri ownership rights over the land for four years, and as the public needs to declare the particular interests of twenty mining companies, with In order to circumvent the property rights enshrined in the Constitution, which also encourage community members, indigenous peoples and other citizens represented by the beggar in the metaphor.
The source of wealth
presidential The second claim is that the wealth of Peru lies mainly in natural resources and not primarily in the processing capacity of its citizens. The world has come to the conclusion long ago that knowledge is the real creator of wealth and human capital the most important factor, and on them rests competitiveness. So we speak today of the "knowledge society." The president goes back centuries ago to consider that the inert material extracted with little added value is the true wealth. Not surprisingly, then, the government reduced its value-and just to say, also the previous governments, give to education, primary shaper of human capital. We know that education in Peru, especially the public, is one of the worst in the world. Under these conditions, Peru can not be competitive, as much is simply a collector of rent. In contrast, the accumulated knowledge of farmers and native peoples on the complex realities in which they live and survive, are ignored and even despised by the official world.
LRA is not against the great investment. Moreover, considering that in many cases is essential for the proper exploitation of natural resources, including minerals, oil and gas. But at the same time, not to confuse the media, ie the sustainable improvement of quality of life of the whole population (in order), with different types of investment (the media). As argued in the editorial of LRA 87, the month of September, with regard to mining ("Mining" is development? "):" There is [...] a mechanical connection between having and exploiting natural resources, be they miners or others, and bring about development "," we need to redefine the role that [ mining activities] should be local and regional development [...], not in pursuance of a "social responsibility" of the enterprise-term, usually a euphemism for "public relations" and that depends entirely on the willingness of the company - but as an essential function of this economic activity. This function should be explicit in the contracts. "
What is sustainable modern
The third assertion follows from the presidential confusion between what is cutting edge technology, which supposedly brings large foreign investment, and the modern way of exploiting natural resources properly. Much of the current technology of mining and oil companies still corresponds to a paradigm of the industrial revolution two hundred years ago, in which the relationship with nature is based on "extracted without replenishing." It is noted today that the cumulative impact of this paradigm are terrible: the disappearance of biological species, water pollution and soil warming progressive in the world. Today, modern requires the opposite: the quest for development that ensures the sustainability of resources.
The anticapitalist This sustainability is at stake the future of humanity, as has just confirmed on 17 November in Valencia, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at its plenary XXVII . The UN Secretary General, in her closing remarks, stressed that climate change will affect more to developing countries. "The deglaciation trigger flooding and lead to reduced water availability in South Asia and South America '. And "if the IPCC projections reveal severe true, much of the Amazon will become plains without tree vegetation," he warns.
These should be central concerns of Peru and its president. But Garcia says there is a current anti-capitalist transecular skin changes according to the times: Communists in the nineteenth century (it is assumed that ruled in the twentieth century!), Protectionism in the twentieth century (Britain, USA and other capitalist countries were characterized as protectionist!) and environmentalists in the XXI century (when the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded for their environmental merits, the IPCC and Al Gore, is difficult to define the anti-capitalist!).
Big is beautiful: the farm, new development paradigm
According to President Garcia, the community lands are "idle land because the owner has no training or financial resources, so your property is apparent. That same land, sold in large lots, bring technology ...». The President should clarify whether the rights of property of those who "have no training or economic resources" (which he described as "apparent") are of lower status than the ownership of large investors who bring technology. That is, in essence, a living of the two bills mentioned above paragraphs.
The idea of \u200b\u200b"selling the land in large lots, which brings technology" as a solution to the enhancement of natural resources, the President extends to mining, petroleum, fishing and logging. His conception of economic organization is ultimately that of a proliferation of modern farms, large estates (for agriculture, mining, fisheries, timber exploitation and gas), owned by large investors, for a hand, and thousands of peasants, natives and fishermen, workers converted (probably underpaid and mistreated, given the limited capacity and / or willingness of government to improve labor relations). Nothing more contradictory to the construction of an equitable, environmentally sustainable, with many actors, institutions strong, dynamic local markets and an active state and at the same time, decentralized.
Peru can not develop in the twenty-first century's own visions of the nineteenth century.
(This article was published in La Revista Agraria # 89 http://www.cepes.org.pe/revista/r-agra89/LRA89-06-07.pdf )
