what about the 60% of the population that earns 200 pesos a day and cannot read or write,and do not know how to transact anything at a bank,are afraid of credit cards, no access to a bank,have no elec or water half the time,no phone service,etc etc etc...never happen here...
bob
Bob I know of a multitude of places in the US, UK, EU and other places that lack as you listed: Can't read or write, don't know how to perform any transaction at the bank, are afraid of CC, no access to a bank, no electricity or water half the time, no phone service (ever), etc...
It just goes to show that most people that never darted out of the big cities in those countries, lack any knowledge of what really transpires in many communities around their own nation.
Yet for all this shortcomings, those countries as a whole are considered developed nations!!!!
It wasn't too long ago (my time) when the presence of a Telex was the measure of modern telecommunications to the world...
Now, the fact that many countries adopted the fax instead of starting with the first generation of text over copper line; does it means that those nations even when adopting a far newer technology will never be called equally developed?
Last time I checked the standards used to say what country was developed and which not, rely on parameters more akin to Ford's assembly lines and incandescent bulbs...
Some countries will develop and invest into newer technologies bypassing altogether the learning curves and junk left behind by older developed countries that relied on those parameters to say what was development called.
Why should it be the responsibility of the state the full service of electricity 24/7, water, sewage, garbage disposal, phone services or any basic parameter you mention that constitutes "development"?
If something we, younger developing nations have learned from the older ones is that, the mistakes of the past should be avoided and long term vision must be used in the development of nations without the calcitrant older technologies still attached like an appendix to the country.
Education must be pursued via private sectors, all in competence for the best and brightest workers of tomorrow. Just like any major sport venue hunt, scouts and develops future starts; so should the private sector participate in the learning and developmental process of our future generations.
Public education has failed miserably all over the world... In contrast, private education has proven to be the stick to measure excellence...
The DR is moving ever sure to set the roots of the country's future now, not adding to the rotting structures that forever keep failing; but with the vision of a future that only us can ensure down the road.
The Metro is not a local SD project but a nation-wide mass transportation system, which will be unrivaled for years to come in our hemisphere. It will serve as an example of how a developing country should plan ahead to the future, instead of playing catch up to those already beset with the technologies of the past still attached.
The power generators, Bio Fuel plants, Ethanol plants, water works, major national roads, communications, etc... Are being set off from the ground up with ample investment and pursue of the private sector. It's the private sector that which has proven to keep the run for better technology and adopting newer systems, or be dismissed from the market as such for failing to innovate and keep up or surpass the boundaries.
The Metro is going to be run via major private sector investment, and so will all other major sectors that any nation in development needs.
Did Cuba make the country any more developed because literacy is 99%?!?
Did the US eradicate poverty because they created social aid programs?!?
Did the EU solve the health care needs of 100% of the citizenship with their autonomous care system or individual states?!?
Your measure of poverty from the old world and POV in the US is not what a campesino eating fresh produce/eggs and meat, while owning his own roof and land considers dirt poverty...
Having a flat panel TV, washing machine, radio or electricity is not a sign of good living standards but consumerism...
Poverty is what the DR imported and keeps importing from the other side of the border. People with absolutely nothing in their backs...
Education for the sake of education is not real learning. 90% of the population in most developed countries would die is left to fend off for themselves to secure food and basics as basics are to a human without supermarkets or shops.
