Politicsweb - DOCUMENTS - Our response to the economic crisis - Pravin Gordhan
Just a few extracts that echo what moladi has been advocating for many years. Unfortunately no action to date, but then again, maybe tomorrow?
The underlying message - Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2009Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2009: - CHANGE
"The recession requires us to make substantial changes to our fiscal projections and plans.
It means that we have to achieve more, with less. We cannot spend money on wasteful extravagances and golf-days, we cannot tolerate unnecessary bureaucratic structures, and we must achieve greater value for money in contracting for goods and services.
The present crisis demands of us to extend our investment in job creation, and to embed it fully in our rural development strategy, social services and local infrastructure programmes.
The crisis calls for a new blend of skills development and renewal of schools and colleges - as Chief Albert Luthuli often emphasised, there is nothing more important than education in building national consciousness and pride, and in meeting the needs of the people and our economy. The crisis challenges us to construct a new deal for our young people, new opportunities for school-leavers, a new partnership between workseekers and employers, and responsible leadership in public service.
Restoring growth and improving financial regulation are the immediate challenges. In addition, Cabinet will ask questions about our longer-term development path:
What kinds of investment will contribute to more rapid poverty reduction, and to a more balanced distribution of income and opportunity?
How should we adapt to changing global trade opportunities, the realignment of east-west and north-south relations and the extraordinary dynamics of product innovation and technology change?
How should we reform our economic regulatory framework - in banking, social security, financial services, health care, agriculture and food security?
How do we address future energy, water and transport needs? How do we reduce our carbon emissions? How do we share the cost burden of these and other investments?
I cannot detail all the changes, but let me share with the House some of the main changes:
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Bill Drayton — Social Edge - moladi housing the POOR
Bill Drayton — Social Edge
Social entrepreneurship - the practice of responding to market failures with transformative and financially sustainable innovations aimed at solving social problems. Transformative InnovationsAshoka Founder Bill Drayton has famously commented that “social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.” Like other entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs are creative thinkers, continuously striving for innovation, which can involve new technologies, supply sources, distribution outlets, or methods of production. Innovation may also mean starting new organizations, or offering new products or services. Innovative ideas can be completely new inventions or creative adaptations of existing ones. Many scholars take this focus on innovation even further. Social entrepreneurs are “change agents,” creating “large-scale change through pattern-breaking ideas,” “addressing the root causes” of social problems, possessing “the ambition to create systemic change by introducing a new idea and persuading others to adopt it,” and changing “the social systems that create and maintain” problems. These types of transformative changes can be national or global. They can also often be highly localized—but no less powerful—in their impact. Most often, social entrepreneurs who create transformative changes combine innovative practices, deep and targeted knowledge of their social issue area, applied and cutting-edge research, and political savvy to reach their goals. For all entrepreneurs, whether in the business or social realm, innovation is not a one-time event—but continues over time. Of course, while addressing a social problem with a potentially transformative innovation is an essential component of the definition of social entrepreneurship offered here, succeeding in generating such transformation is not. The field, like any other, includes success stories and strong leaders, as well as those who fall short of their aspirations. Nonetheless, the definition of social entrepreneurship requires that initiatives at least have the potential for transformative social innovation on a local, national, or global scale. This characteristic distinguishes social entrepreneurship from other nonprofit, business, or government service providers that may be more narrowly focused on meeting the most pressing social needs as they emerge.
moladi - http://www.moladi.net/
Social entrepreneurship - the practice of responding to market failures with transformative and financially sustainable innovations aimed at solving social problems. Transformative InnovationsAshoka Founder Bill Drayton has famously commented that “social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.” Like other entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs are creative thinkers, continuously striving for innovation, which can involve new technologies, supply sources, distribution outlets, or methods of production. Innovation may also mean starting new organizations, or offering new products or services. Innovative ideas can be completely new inventions or creative adaptations of existing ones. Many scholars take this focus on innovation even further. Social entrepreneurs are “change agents,” creating “large-scale change through pattern-breaking ideas,” “addressing the root causes” of social problems, possessing “the ambition to create systemic change by introducing a new idea and persuading others to adopt it,” and changing “the social systems that create and maintain” problems. These types of transformative changes can be national or global. They can also often be highly localized—but no less powerful—in their impact. Most often, social entrepreneurs who create transformative changes combine innovative practices, deep and targeted knowledge of their social issue area, applied and cutting-edge research, and political savvy to reach their goals. For all entrepreneurs, whether in the business or social realm, innovation is not a one-time event—but continues over time. Of course, while addressing a social problem with a potentially transformative innovation is an essential component of the definition of social entrepreneurship offered here, succeeding in generating such transformation is not. The field, like any other, includes success stories and strong leaders, as well as those who fall short of their aspirations. Nonetheless, the definition of social entrepreneurship requires that initiatives at least have the potential for transformative social innovation on a local, national, or global scale. This characteristic distinguishes social entrepreneurship from other nonprofit, business, or government service providers that may be more narrowly focused on meeting the most pressing social needs as they emerge.
moladi - http://www.moladi.net/
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