Mamshungulii
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- May 3, 2023
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Someone will think about the future. It had better be us. Imagine that it’s 7am, January 1, 2050.What world would you be waking up to? What world would you want to wake up to?
Obviously, no human interaction occurs in a vacuum, and can ever be considered independent of context. Context is often implicitly defined by situations, locations, membership and expectations. As this reading was busy researching in the book of Endersen et al, it discussed the impact of national traditions on perceptions of the future and it says a relatively equal society comfortable with uncertainty is better suited than others to discuss long-term futures. This writing it is main concern is the image of a confident, forward-looking community, able to shape some components of its future.
First, this writing sees there is intersection between governance and education as the main driver determining their future: a better educated public would display more political awareness and participation and would limit the influence of vested interests, via the media available, on decision making.
Second, it sees climate change, economic development, health, environmental and economic sustainability and lifestyles as being shaped by human decisions and actions.
Third, it sees the future as less determined by discrete events, such as technological breakthroughs or conflicts, than by large-scale social trends, which are shaped by human behavior.
The crucial challenge in determining the future is seen in the need to move from a status-quo characterized by decision making based on short-term goals, mostly influenced by private and corporate interest to a new system which allows complex decision making to be inclusive, address long-term goals and provide for social equity.
While it can be hard to assess the likelihood of different futures, it is easier to describe what we would or wouldn’t like in the future. The purpose of this step is to draw attention to the inevitable relations existing between past, present and future.
IN THE FUTURE TANZANIA WILL FACE INTERGENERERATIONAL CHALLENGES, POPULATION AGEING WILL MEAN THAT THERE WILL BE FEWER WORKERS TO SUPPORT THE RETIREREES AND YOUNG DEPENDANTS, this will place pressure on the economic growth that drives rising living standards at the same time the ageing population will result in substantial fiscal pressures from increased demand for government services and rising health costs.
Tanzania’s population will continue to grow over time but at slower rates than in the past. A growing population will help manage pressure on our infrastructures, services and environment. This will require continued planning and investment ahead of time.
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges to Tanzania’s long term economic sustainability. Tanzania will be one of the countries hardest and fastest hit.
Climate change threatens living standards through its impact on the environment and on the economy.
Tanzanians’ ability to meet these challenges depends on the actions taken today. Small adjustments now -to grow the economy by increasing productivity and participation, restrain unsustainable growth in spending, plan for future demographic change and tackle climate change -will prevent the need for much sharper and more costly adjustment in the future.
These are difficult challenges but not beyond us Tanzanians if we continue to put in place policies to address them now.
THE FUTURE NEEDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY OF TANZANIA
• GREEN GROWTH –means fostering economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our wellbeing relies. To do this it needs to catalyze investment and innovation which will underpin sustained growth and give rise to new economic opportunities. Its emphases growth via incentives for greater efficiency in the use of resources and natural assets: enhancing productivity, reducing waste and energy consumption and making resources available to highest value use as well as via innovation, new markets and policy interventions. It is often described as a win-win solution to the challenge of aligning economic growth and environmental sustainability.
• GREEN ECONOMY-it aims to achieve “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. A green economy is low-carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive. In a green economy, growth in income and employment are driven by public and private investment that reduce carbon emissions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and promote the loss of biodiversity and eco system services. It envisages growth but put emphasis on social inclusiveness and respect for future generations.
• GREEN NEW DEAL-it envisages government intervention to address both economic and ecological crises and regulations to limit the influence of the financial sector over the economy.
• STEADY STATE ECONOMY –it is an economy of relative stable size; it features stable population and stable consumption that remain at or below carrying capacity .it aim to give a strong physical and economic rationale to the principle that constant growth is not possible in a finite world.
This writing calls for the government to ensure social sustainability through social inclusion Agenda that seeks all Tanzanians, now and in the future generations, share in the benefit of improving living standards, As Tanzanians population grows and ages, it will become increasingly important that all Tanzanians have the opportunities and capabilities to participate fully in social and economic life.
Most people across Tanzania do not enjoying strong and improving education, employment and health outcomes.
Small number of Tanzanians are sharing these benefits. Many indigenous Tanzanians in particular face poor life outcomes. Disadvantages affects lives of those involved, their families, as well as impacting negatively on workforce participation and productivity and government fiscal sustainability.
However, there is a number of intervention that the government can make to reduce disadvantage and provide people with opportunities to pursue lives that they and society would value.
• Provision of public services to those areas neglected
• Social inclusion agenda to be of priority
• Tanzania tax and transfer system
A more responsive and coordinated system will be needed. One in which different professions collaborate effectively. One in which every shilling or dollar will buy higher quality better valued services.
Obviously, no human interaction occurs in a vacuum, and can ever be considered independent of context. Context is often implicitly defined by situations, locations, membership and expectations. As this reading was busy researching in the book of Endersen et al, it discussed the impact of national traditions on perceptions of the future and it says a relatively equal society comfortable with uncertainty is better suited than others to discuss long-term futures. This writing it is main concern is the image of a confident, forward-looking community, able to shape some components of its future.
First, this writing sees there is intersection between governance and education as the main driver determining their future: a better educated public would display more political awareness and participation and would limit the influence of vested interests, via the media available, on decision making.
Second, it sees climate change, economic development, health, environmental and economic sustainability and lifestyles as being shaped by human decisions and actions.
Third, it sees the future as less determined by discrete events, such as technological breakthroughs or conflicts, than by large-scale social trends, which are shaped by human behavior.
The crucial challenge in determining the future is seen in the need to move from a status-quo characterized by decision making based on short-term goals, mostly influenced by private and corporate interest to a new system which allows complex decision making to be inclusive, address long-term goals and provide for social equity.
While it can be hard to assess the likelihood of different futures, it is easier to describe what we would or wouldn’t like in the future. The purpose of this step is to draw attention to the inevitable relations existing between past, present and future.
IN THE FUTURE TANZANIA WILL FACE INTERGENERERATIONAL CHALLENGES, POPULATION AGEING WILL MEAN THAT THERE WILL BE FEWER WORKERS TO SUPPORT THE RETIREREES AND YOUNG DEPENDANTS, this will place pressure on the economic growth that drives rising living standards at the same time the ageing population will result in substantial fiscal pressures from increased demand for government services and rising health costs.
Tanzania’s population will continue to grow over time but at slower rates than in the past. A growing population will help manage pressure on our infrastructures, services and environment. This will require continued planning and investment ahead of time.
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges to Tanzania’s long term economic sustainability. Tanzania will be one of the countries hardest and fastest hit.
Climate change threatens living standards through its impact on the environment and on the economy.
Tanzanians’ ability to meet these challenges depends on the actions taken today. Small adjustments now -to grow the economy by increasing productivity and participation, restrain unsustainable growth in spending, plan for future demographic change and tackle climate change -will prevent the need for much sharper and more costly adjustment in the future.
These are difficult challenges but not beyond us Tanzanians if we continue to put in place policies to address them now.
THE FUTURE NEEDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY OF TANZANIA
• GREEN GROWTH –means fostering economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our wellbeing relies. To do this it needs to catalyze investment and innovation which will underpin sustained growth and give rise to new economic opportunities. Its emphases growth via incentives for greater efficiency in the use of resources and natural assets: enhancing productivity, reducing waste and energy consumption and making resources available to highest value use as well as via innovation, new markets and policy interventions. It is often described as a win-win solution to the challenge of aligning economic growth and environmental sustainability.
• GREEN ECONOMY-it aims to achieve “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. A green economy is low-carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive. In a green economy, growth in income and employment are driven by public and private investment that reduce carbon emissions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and promote the loss of biodiversity and eco system services. It envisages growth but put emphasis on social inclusiveness and respect for future generations.
• GREEN NEW DEAL-it envisages government intervention to address both economic and ecological crises and regulations to limit the influence of the financial sector over the economy.
• STEADY STATE ECONOMY –it is an economy of relative stable size; it features stable population and stable consumption that remain at or below carrying capacity .it aim to give a strong physical and economic rationale to the principle that constant growth is not possible in a finite world.
This writing calls for the government to ensure social sustainability through social inclusion Agenda that seeks all Tanzanians, now and in the future generations, share in the benefit of improving living standards, As Tanzanians population grows and ages, it will become increasingly important that all Tanzanians have the opportunities and capabilities to participate fully in social and economic life.
Most people across Tanzania do not enjoying strong and improving education, employment and health outcomes.
Small number of Tanzanians are sharing these benefits. Many indigenous Tanzanians in particular face poor life outcomes. Disadvantages affects lives of those involved, their families, as well as impacting negatively on workforce participation and productivity and government fiscal sustainability.
However, there is a number of intervention that the government can make to reduce disadvantage and provide people with opportunities to pursue lives that they and society would value.
• Provision of public services to those areas neglected
• Social inclusion agenda to be of priority
• Tanzania tax and transfer system
A more responsive and coordinated system will be needed. One in which different professions collaborate effectively. One in which every shilling or dollar will buy higher quality better valued services.
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