two motivations that led me to the Faculty of Economics I remember them well enough. On the one hand, eager to find the reasons why a person could get rich in this kind of economic societies. I knew, I just want to be rich. On the other hand, I wondered how some countries could reach such levels of wealth and development, while others less fortunate living on the edge of poverty. Furthermore, I wondered why I lived in Bogota live a middle class person in any city in the United States or Western Europe, while a few kilometers there were people settling into real human hell, eroded by poverty and neglect. Perhaps this second question in the University can never answer, not in this new generation of social scientists called economists, less social than scientific.
Because it seems that the fight against poverty was an issue embodied in the core of political discourse in the heart of claims social organizations or the constant litany of social activists, gifted with good intentions and almost always devoid of a north-but tangential, at best, to economics. Economists suddenly filled the literature of complex treaties to combat poverty and inequality but have consistently failed to implement their ideas and make them successful. Much of the mainstream of thinking has been believed and believe that the economy must grow enough to spill the wealth produced and delivered to all classes. Something like putting a drop on the tip of the pyramid and expect them to be distributed at all levels to the base. Or make wine glass overflows and wine to flow into the mouths of the most thirsty tasters.
But it seems that basically does not lie and even the choice to grow to distribute or allocate to grow. It is likely that an advanced country in Scandinavia can redistribute their income to feed domestic demand and by this means economic growth, but it is likely that in Colombia this strategy does not give the same results. But the aggravating is that the Colombian economy, with annual growth trends of positive and significant, can not use all the available workforce in the country and eliminate the unmet needs of the poorest. Redistributed without crumbs and grow is to grow to redistribute seems to be becoming a noisy and frustrating wait for the majority. Must be to know that some industry saw increased profits as you are applying for a housing allowance that is far from a simple bureaucratic procedure.
appears to be emerging the need third way to provide targeted development models and to identify its target population according to their needs. No policies to alleviate poverty: it is necessary to design sophisticated palliative, because poverty is a disease which must be lived together. Our countries should consider comprehensive strategies for the eradication of extreme poverty. A great evils great remedies and poverty could not resist a warm wet cloth. The governments of emerging countries, which concentrates the bulk of the poor worldwide, must summon all the forces of society about this. The productive apparatus of nations must have a functional relationship with the desire and aspiration of the people to close a cycle of poverty that threatens every day to retain their ranks more and more odious generations. The palliative, at best, will make the passage of these generations in the cycle of poverty more bearable. But we should want to make friendly poverty: we believe in and create a society in the absence of his hateful face.
Now in addition to economics student, I am sub-director of A Roof for my Country Colombia in Cali .
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